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

[Michael S]

On Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 7:44:07 PM UTC+3, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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? 
> 

It seems, the trouble was caused corporate firewall.
Sorry.

> The link is also archived: 
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20210104211530/https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdA5WkDNALetBn4iFeSepHjdLGJdxPBwZyY47ir1bZGAK/comp/vax.html 
> 

I was hoping to compare his relatively new thoughts with articles he wrote 16 years ago.
https://www.realworldtech.com/vax-cpu-economics/
https://www.realworldtech.com/vax-alpha/

But it turned out that your link is from 2005 :(

> 
> 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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