Hi Everyone, After leaving Amdahl, my father went to a couple of other companies including Synopsys, Cadence, and Transitive Technologies (which made the original dynamic binary translation software for Apple's PowerPC to x86, aka Rosetta, a story for another time). Some time in there, he gave me a tshirt he got from who knows where that DEC was using to promote the then new Alpha chip. I was so excited because I had just read about the Alpha in Byte magazine and was in the middle of the study of computer architecture and knew this was going to be the next great thing (oh well). I've been wearing it up until about a year ago when it had all but become tatters. I never did get to play with an Alpha machine, but so it goes... Dean Notarnicola was nice enough to scan it and Javier Rivera cleaned it up for reprinting. Neither Dean, myself, or I (or VCF) receives any money from the sale and yeah, we know DEC (now owned, I believe, by HP) might copyright strike us so get it while you can. https://www.8bittees.com/product/alpha-two-sided-tee/ Best wishes, -Adam
Transitive was a very interesting company. They also did a IRIX/MIPS binary compatibility layer for SGI when they (drank the cool-aid and) introduced their Itanium based systems in the early '00. https://www.networkworld.com/article/2326014/sgi-launches-linux-based-visual... <https://www.networkworld.com/article/2326014/sgi-launches-linux-based-visual-computer-line.html> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-10/msg00300.html <https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-10/msg00300.html> I've seen some fellow SGI enthusiasts running linux/itanium systems with QT installed and they can in fact run binaries created for ELF MIPS. Fascinating technology but it probably let to more buy in from SGI to drops MIPS development and go all in on Itanium.
On Jan 28, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Transitive Technologies
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On January 28, 2022 4:41:31 PM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
After leaving Amdahl, my father went to a couple of other companies including Synopsys, Cadence, and Transitive Technologies (which made the original dynamic binary translation software for Apple's PowerPC to x86, aka Rosetta, a story for another time).
Some time in there, he gave me a tshirt he got from who knows where that DEC was using to promote the then new Alpha chip. I was so excited because I had just read about the Alpha in Byte magazine and was in the middle of the study of computer architecture and knew this was going to be the next great thing (oh well). I've been wearing it up until about a year ago when it had all but become tatters. I never did get to play with an Alpha machine, but so it goes...
"Oh well"? Alpha was a very successful architecture. It was never sold in Sears, but it was never meant to. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
The whole story of early-mid 90s Intel, DEC, Compaq, HP, and the development of the Alpha and Pentium processors has historical significance. MS NT3.5 vs X lots of important stuff On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 11:37 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On January 28, 2022 4:41:31 PM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
After leaving Amdahl, my father went to a couple of other companies including Synopsys, Cadence, and Transitive Technologies (which made the original dynamic binary translation software for Apple's PowerPC to x86, aka Rosetta, a story for another time).
Some time in there, he gave me a tshirt he got from who knows where that DEC was using to promote the then new Alpha chip. I was so excited because I had just read about the Alpha in Byte magazine and was in the middle of the study of computer architecture and knew this was going to be the next great thing (oh well). I've been wearing it up until about a year ago when it had all but become tatters. I never did get to play with an Alpha machine, but so it goes...
"Oh well"? Alpha was a very successful architecture. It was never sold in Sears, but it was never meant to.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On Jan 28, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Dean Notarnicola was nice enough to scan it and Javier Rivera cleaned it up for reprinting. Neither Dean, myself, or I (or VCF) receives any money from the sale and yeah, we know DEC (now owned, I believe, by HP) might copyright strike us so get it while you can.
Just ordered one. Thanks for making this possible. Now I know what to exhibit and what to wear. :) -- Jameel Akari
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