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| | DEC Alpha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ironically, in mid-2003, as the Alpha was about to be phased out, the fastest and second fastest computers in the U.S. were both implemented using Alpha processors (in the case of the former, a cluster of 4096 Alpha processors). | | | Compaq announced that computers using Alpha would be phased out by 2004 in favour of Intel's Itanium. | | | Alpha was born out of an earlier RISC project named PRISM, itself the final product of several earlier projects. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha
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| | Alpha - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Alpha is both a microprocessor and the name of a computer system from the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which is now part of Compaq. | | | The Alpha is based on reduced instruction set computer (reduced instruction set computing) architecture and handles 64 bits at a time. | | | The latest models of DEC's Alpha computer systems are offered with either DEC's Unix operating system or with Windows NT. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211917,00.html
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| | Alpha Processor expands from chips to Linux-based systems CNET News.com |
| | Alpha Processor's machines will be designed for heavier-duty jobs than Network Appliance's, Talbot said, adding that Alpha Processor wrote the extra software that shares the load across the collection of computers. | | | Alpha Processor, a company founded by Compaq Computer and Samsung to expand the market for high-performance Alpha chips, is rewriting its business model. | | | The respected Alpha processors, which power Unix servers from Compaq and many smaller computer makers, have never achieved the popularity of Intel chips. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1001-240918.html?legacy=cnet
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| | ALPHA processors - roadmaps |
| | New Alpha processor should be in the end of 2000 or in the beginning of 2001. | | | Presentation of Kathryn Wilcox and Srilatha Manne from Alpha Development Group (Compaq Computer Corp.) was named “Alpha Processors: A History of Power Issues and A Look to the Future”. | | | In the end of 2001 Samsung want to output Alpha EV68CX processor with SOI technology (silicon-on-insulator). |
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http://www.alphaprocessors.com/roadmaps.htm
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| | Mac News: Hardware : HP's Alpha Processor Bidding Adieu |
| | Alpha also is credited by some with the development of the high-speed interconnect technology known as HyperTransport, used in AMD's successful Opteron line of chips and the multithreading technology known as HyperThreading, used by Intel. | | | McCarron said the Alpha EV6 bus design actually established the design that is used in today's Athlon XP processor from AMD. | | | The battle for processor speed supremacy is only part of the equation in a successful computer chip, but the Alpha line -- passed on from Digital Equipment to Compaq to HP (NYSE: HPQ) |
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http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/35973.html
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| | Performance Tips for Alpha Linux C Programmers |
| | Alpha is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer architecture. | | | Alpha favors programs with data structures that are aligned on long word (4 bytes) or quadword (8 bytes) address boundaries. | | | The processor fetches instructions from memory, interprets the instructions and possibly reads data from or writes data to memory. |
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http://opensource.compaq.com/the_source/technical_papers/pauls-tips.htm
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| | Alpha chip update -- it ain't dead yet Tech News on ZDNet |
| | Compaq, which owns Alpha and stewards its development, announced earlier this month that the chip will be at the heart of a new high-end Unix server, known as Wildfire, or the AlphaServer GS series. | | | API also sells two Alpha products known as the UP1000 and UP2000, which are sold through the reseller channel and also used by some system vendors to build Alpha-based servers and other computers. | | | IBM and Compaq are also exploring the possibility of manufacturing the next-generation Alpha chips using IBM's silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology on a 0.13-micron process, the company said. |
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-521056.html?legacy=zdnn
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| | Alpha pushes processor to a cool 1 GHz CNET News.com |
| | Compaq, which inherited the Alpha design team when it acquired Digital in 1998, is one of the major users of the chip. | | | Compaq Computer is the lead designer and main consumer of the chip. | | | and Samsung, two of the chief proponents of Alpha, demonstrated a computer system running an Alpha processor clocked at 1 GHz (1,000 megahertz) at PC Expo here today that did not require special cryogenic equipment to keep it from overheating. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1001-227510.html?legacy=cnet&owv
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| | The AlphaLinux Homepage |
| | After a timeout and slow development of alpha core, me [Cristian Balint] and a new volunteer Sergey Tikhonov, finaly developed next release of alpha core 1.0 wich is equivalent with fedora-FC3 but with lots of alpha specific fixes. | | | Paul V. Bolotoff recently posted a comprehensive history of the Alpha CPU to a mailing list, and I thought the AlphaLinux people might be interested in it: http://www.alasir.com/alpha/alpha_history.html | | | Unfortunatley Mike Barnes haven't the time these days to take major part of development on this new tree, so we decided to release AlphaCore 1.0a now as-is. |
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http://www.alphalinux.org
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| | Alpha: The History in Facts and Comments |
| | The processor and only was able to perform read/write operations with B-cache, the system logic was just granted a permission to read B-tag data (that was of the top importance for multi-processor systems especially, to maintain cache coherence of all processors available within a machine). | | | A set of special instructions (Epicode, or Extended processor instruction code) was created in software [through loadable microcode] to facilitate handling of special tasks required for a particular environment or operating system given, and not supported by the standard instruction set otherwise. | | | EV7 processors could be connected to each other using various algorithms, but so-called "torus" and "shuffle" interconnects were implemented usually. |
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http://www.alasir.com/alpha/alpha_history.html
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| | Real World Technologies - Alpha EV8 (Part 1): Simultaneous Multi-Threat |
| | Some of the problems were due to the inherent complexity of the practically hand-crafted full-custom, sophisticated six-issue wide, out-of-order execution superscalar processor design. | | | Aside from a brand new processor core, the EV8 device will incorporate the large on-chip caches, memory controllers and interprocessor communication links of the EV7 and so in a conceptual sense at least, will be a drop-in replacement for the EV7. | | | The characteristics of Alpha Processor designs up to and including the EV8 are provided below in Table 1. |
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http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT121300000000
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| | Alpha NT News, October 1998 |
| | Compaq, Digital, Alpha, and Alphapowered are trademarks of Compaq Computer Corporation. | | | But that’s not enough, says a group of Alpha developers, who prepared an open letter to Microsoft Corp. to pressure the software giant to provide Alpha software products that are equivalent to their Intel counterparts. | | | "Alpha will not be in the program in [the fourth quarter], but storage products will be," said Roberts. |
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http://www.alphant.com/news/news9810.html
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| | ITworld.com - End of the line for HP's Alpha processor |
| | First developed in 1992, the Alpha processor was well regarded by analysts for its technical capabilities, but it never managed to attain the market share of rival RISC processors from IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., or HP. | | | The 1.3GHz EV7z marks the last in a line of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) processors initially developed by Digital Equipment Corp. but ultimately acquired by HP as part of its 2002 acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. | | | Hewlett-Packard Co. will release the final processor upgrade for its AlphaServer line of Unix servers on Monday. |
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http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1378/040816hpalpha/pfindex.html
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| | The Alpha Architecture Handbook |
| | Alpha has been carefully designed to avoid bias toward one or two programming languages. | | | issued by one processor may be arbitrarily reordered by an implementation. | | | The basic addressable unit in the Alpha architecture is the 8-bit byte. |
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http://www.alphalinux.org/docs/alphaahb.html
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| | Computer Dealer News: Alpha primed for emerging CPU markets - Compaq, Samsung, Alpha Processor - Company Business and ... |
| | The momentum behind Alpha technologies kicked into high gear towards the end of last year when the three companies announced a combined US$500 million investment designed to advance the processing technology. | | | Late last month, for example, an independent SPEC CPU2000 benchmark test placed Alpha EV67-based systems at the top of the heap in terms of server performance. | | | API and Samsung will create a framework for implementing next-generation Alpha EV7 technologies. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3563/is_4_16/ai_60904727
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| | X-bit labs - Articles - Server Platforms Today (page 17) |
| | It was more complex here: when Compaq bought Digital, the then-existing Alpha platform was already somewhat obsolete and the development of the new generation was far behind the schedule (partially because of personnel problems as many developers of the first processor generations had quit the company). | | | The processor supports from 1MB to 16MB of an external L2 cache (I mean CPUs of the EV68CB/EV68DC series or Alpha 21264C) and tags of the L2 cache are stored in the processor core for faster processing. | | | The legend of the computer world, the first 64-bit platform, this processor was far ahead of its time in many respects. |
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/server-systems_17.html
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| | New dual-processor from Alpha Processor Inc - vnunet.com |
| | Alphas will run Windows 2000 native, and unlike Intel's 64-bit chips will be available when the OS launches. | | | Samsung has a licence to develop the Alpha chip, developed by Digital before its purchase by Compaq. | | | This new dual-processor UP2000 board from Samsung-owned Alpha Processor Inc (API) will give Intel a thing or two to think about. |
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http://nl1.vnunet.com/news/88886
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| | Geek.com DEC Alpha 21364 Processor Table |
| | HP is planning to move Alpha customers to Intel Itanium systems, and there was some controversy that Alphaservers with the EV-78 chips weren't benchmarked against Itanium II systems as the Alpha supposedly beat out the Itanium II. | | | Nevertheless, with the large on-chip L2 cache and decent memory interface, the 21364 should be force to reckon with. | | | The 21364 uses the same core as the 21264, and just has a big fat on-chip cache that was first going to be a 1.5MB L2 cache, but is now a 1.75MB monster 7-way set associative cache. |
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http://www.geek.com/procspec/dec/21364.htm
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| | End of the line for HP's Alpha: ZDNet Australia: News: Hardware |
| | Research performed by Digital's Alpha team in the '90s on multithreading also strongly influenced HyperThreading, a technology incorporated into current Intel server and desktop chips. | | | It was expensive, and finding software applications to run on the Alpha was a constant struggle for its users. | | | 19 August 2004 05:49 PM Hewlett-Packard has released its final Alpha processor, the beginning of the end for a chip dynasty that never was. |
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/0,2000061702,39156753,00.htm
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| | Alpha was first to power 64-bit PC desktops |
| | The Alpha powered Windows NT workstations and desktop machines for quite a few years, and of course was supported by Microsoft until Compaq – as was – pulled the plug on the project. | | | We've got a copy of Windows NT for the Alpha kicking about here at the INQwell – but we've just never had the chance to try it out on an Alpha machine. | | | WHILE AMD AND Apple squabble over which is the first to make a desktop machine that uses a 64-bit CPU, let us not forget the DEC Alpha microprocessor. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10556
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| | 64-Bit CPUs: Alpha, SPARC, MIPS, and POWER |
| | Developed entirely in-house, Alpha was a replacement for the MIPS processors Digital had been using for a few years, which were, in turn, replacements for the VAX, which had become too complex for its own good. | | | Some of the EV8 technology may be incorporated into future Intel 64-bit processors, since Compaq licensed Alpha technology to Intel last year – more on that in a bit. | | | Digital introduced Alpha in 1992 and shipped its first Alpha processor in January 1993. |
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,10348,00.asp
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| | Compaq gets set to fly with Alpha processor - Webact!ve |
| | The Alpha chips have always been performance leaders, with speeds of more than 600MHz, compared with Intel's 400MHz offerings. | | | Compaq's XP (extreme performance) workstations will be built around currently available Alpha chips and Windows NT. | | | However, the middle and lower segment of Compaq workstations will still be based around Intel's Xeon processor. |
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http://www.webactivemagazine.co.uk/2053249
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| | New company for Alpha chips due CNET News.com |
| | Under the new regime, Samsung will design and manufacture chips while the Alpha Processor subsidiary will sell them and try to recruit computer vendors, said sources close to Samsung. | | | A number of analysts, however, have said that the company will make an objective judgment about its future commitment to the platform after the release of the 64-bit Merced chip from Intel in 2000. | | | The FTC has charged that Intel subverts innovation, such as new chip technologies, through use of its monopoly position in the market. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1001-212107.html?legacy=cnet&st.ne.fd.gif.f
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| | Alpha processor: a little marvel |
| | EV7's on-chip switching and "glueless SMP" support will allow Compaq to field Alpha systems composed of fewer, less costly components that can be linked together like Lego blocks to form large-scale SMP complexes based on a 2D mesh architecture. | | | Leveraging the 2P module, Compaq plans to offer a pair of Alpha EV7-based platforms that target the telecom, and mainstream computing marketplaces respectively. | | | New with EV7-which will incorporate six times as many transistors as the 15M transistor EV6 chip-are four to fivefold increases in memory and cache bandwidth, a massive 1.75MB L2 cache, hardware lockstep support for fault-tolerant systems, and on-chip switches. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=121
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| | kbAlertz: When you install the 16-bit edition of Visual Basic 4.0 in a computer using the Alpha processor under Windows ... |
| | When you install the 16-bit edition of Visual Basic 4.0 in a computer using the Alpha processor under Windows NT 3.51, the setup program fails to register the MicroHelp Key State Control. | | | BUG: KeySta16.ocx Is Not Registered in an Alpha Computer | | | kbAlertz: When you install the 16-bit edition of Visual Basic 4.0 in a computer using the Alpha processor under Windows NT 3.51, the setup program fails to register the MicroHelp Key State Control. |
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http://www.kbalertz.com/kb_Q149462.aspx
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| | Microsoft writes off Alpha processor - Accountancy Age |
| | "Compaq is marketing Alpha machines under the Compaq brand, but a small market share translates into a smaller number of software vendors with applications that are Alpha-compatible and, more importantly, peripherals that have Alpha drivers beyond what's in the base OS media distributed by Microsoft." | | | Since the merger of Compaq and Digital, strategic support of Alpha hasn't been a sure thing. | | | David Wallis, network infrastructure manager for integrator, Global Network IT, said Microsoft's actions were a tit-for-tat reprisal against Compaq for ignoring Windows to concentrate on Unix markets. |
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http://www.accountancyage.com/2056450
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| | Can LINUX can run on an ALPHA processor? |
| | There is a Debian Linux for the Alpha processor. | | | Commercial vendors do not provide current Linux distributions for the DEC Alpha CPU. | | | Can LINUX can run on an ALPHA processor? |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid39_cid575503_tax293414,00.html
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| | ALPHA processors - main page |
| | Hewlett Packard may be use on of theirmade cameras and prepare a 14 video's in.WMV format about EV7 (Alpha 21364) processors and servers with them. | | | At the web page of Japanese HP you can found two video files (AVI and MOV) with schematic instruction how to connect 64 processors into the one matrix. | | | the next step in a long term future with hp (overview, customer reaction, and HP's commitment with Carly Fiorina, Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard and Richard Marcello, VP and GM, Alpha Systems Division) - 6.97 MB |
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| | FLOTHERM Analysis Helps Cool The Fastest Chip In The World The 1GHz ALPHA Processor |
| | Alpha Processor, Inc. (API), debuting the fastest processor in the world running at room temperature - the 1GHz Alpha 21264 processor - utilizes Flotherm thermal management software from Flomerics to analyse the cooling requirements of its record-breaking processor, which runs at nearly twice the speed of today's fastest Intel Xeon solution. | | | Flotherm's simple, intuitive user interface, backed up by Flomerics' ten years experience in thermal analysis makes the package ideal for this purpose." | | | Keen to further reduce the operating temperature of the processor, the engineers at API and Flomerics collaborated to find inexpensive solutions, one being a recommendation that copper be inserted into the base of the extruded aluminium heat sink. |
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http://www.flomerics.com/flotherm/news/news_details.jsp?newsId=53
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| | Documentation Library |
| | This library contains technical documentation for DIGITAL Alpha microprocessors and Alpha ATX motherboards. | | | Alpha Microprocessors Motherboard Software Design Tools User's Guide | | | Alpha Motherboards Software Developer's Kit Read Me First |
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http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/dsc-library.html
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| | port-alpha: Re: Support for Alpha Processor, Inc. UP1000 systems |
| | Subject: Re: Support for Alpha Processor, Inc. UP1000 systems | | | > >I have just committed support for the Alpha Processor, Inc. UP1000 systems. | | | port-alpha: Re: Support for Alpha Processor, Inc. UP1000 systems |
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http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2000/06/02/0003.html
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| | UGeek DEC Alpha 21264 Processor Table |
| | The 21264 is the first Alpha to offer out of order execution of instructions. | | | Most x86 processors have offered this for some time now. | | | This is the successor to DEC's 21164 Alpha chip. |
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http://www.geek.com/procspec/dec/21264.htm
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| | Alpha processor finally nuked. (fwd) |
| | After that time, the Itanium 2 family will exceed the performance of Alpha using some of the alpha technology we licensed to them. | | | Subject: Re: Alpha processor finally nuked. | | | We will be releasing and shipping several generations of EV7 technology systems as per the current roadmap. |
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http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2001-June/004082.html
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| | Alpha-Processor based Supercomputer |
| | Seven 233 MHz Alpha processors have a peak performance of 1.63 GFlops! | | | There's a page for people who want to develop Software on the Alpha7 | | | Supercomputing Systems AG has commercialised the Alpha 7 under the label GigaBooster. |
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| | DecTrader |
| | 2GB PCI-to-Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapter for Alpha / QC-6TUAA-SA |
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| | SysOpt.com - Samsung and Compaq Alpha Processor agreement |
| | Samsung is fighting it out with IBM to see who will become a key source for advanced Alpha processors to Houston based Compaq Computers. | | | The processing technologies are expected to be playing a major factor in which company will win out. | | | Samsung Electronics Monday announced an agreement to put $500 million dollars in combined investments into advanced Compaq, Alpha RISC processors technologies. |
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http://www.sysopt.com/news/article.php/3533716
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| | Download details: Site Server 3.0 patch required for setup on Windows 2000 - Alpha |
| | Before you install Site Server 3.0 on Windows 2000 on system with Alpha processor, you must run this Ss3w2k-alpha.exe file. | | | If you do not run the Ss3w2k-alpha.exe file prior to installing Site Server 3.0, you will experience the problem described in Q243564. | | | Supported Operating Systems: Windows NT You will need the following to run Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition for RISC-based systems |
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=F2D1F3EF-D900-4C1D-A9C9-50BCDE41EB1A&displaylang=en
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| | Alpha Processor Support |
| | Questions and problems : Unix/Linux : Alpha Processor Support | | | I now have my Alpha's working on the BOINC Seti@Home. | | | Where can I get the code to compile for P@H? ID: 3621 / Score: 0 |
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http://predictor.scripps.edu/forum_thread.php?id=531
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| | CFP2000 Result: Alpha Processor, Inc. API UP2000 833 MHz |
| | CFP2000 Result: Alpha Processor, Inc. API UP2000 833 MHz | | | For questions about this result, please contact the tester. | | | Generated on Fri Mar 25 14:51:06 2005 by SPEC CPU2000 HTML formatter v1.01 |
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