[Info-vax] Some of what I'm reading...

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-10-02 14:59:46 +0000, Michael S said:

> On Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 10:59:27 PM UTC+2, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>> John Mashey and some DEC history... Rather than diverging from VAX and  
>> creating Alpha as happened, why the variously-suggested overhauling of 
>> VAX was a non-starter:
>> https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdA5WkDNALetBn4iFeSepHjdLGJdxPBwZyY47ir1bZGAK/comp/vax.html 
>> 
>> 
> 
> The post is from 1.5 years ago but I missed it back then.
> Tried to click the link and that's what I got:
> 
> 504 Gateway Time-out
> ----------------------
> openresty
> 
> Is it just me?

That link works here. Whether it's just you, or whether the issue or 
outage is more general?

The link is also archived:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210104211530/https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdA5WkDNALetBn4iFeSepHjdLGJdxPBwZyY47ir1bZGAK/comp/vax.html 


>From that link... By the time you got done fixing most of what made VAX 
slow, you ended up sufficiently incompatible that breaking everything 
with Alpha became feasible.

More semi-related and semiconductor-related links from the reading 
list, these specifically around Intel and x86-64:

https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/ipla/software-development-platforms/client/platforms/alder-lake-desktop/12th-generation-intel-core-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2/009/deprecated-technologies/ 

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/intel_is_late_again/
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/intel_riscv_contributions/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-intel-chips-wont-play-blu-ray-disks-due-to-sgx-deprecation/ 



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