[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Michael Kraemer]

Marc Schlensog schrieb:

> 
> It was the PCA56, where MVI showed up first. IIRC, MVI is an
> integer-only extension. If you want to see what DEC had in mind
> vector-wise for EV8/EV9, check out this PDF:
> 
> www.ptlsim.org/papers/Research/EV9Tarantula.pdf

On paper, LOL.

> Had this ever seen the light of day, it would have blown the
> competition out of the water, including the performance-per-watt ratio.

It's entirely pointless to bragg about something which never existed,
and probably never would have, even if DEC had survived.
DEC couldn't even fix the economical problems associated with the
lesser Alpha's, let alone with such fantasy chips.