Re: [rtl] rtl on alpha AXP

[Kai Mueller <mueller@leo.ifr.ing.tu-bs.de>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:53:07AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
[snip]
> I've liked the Alpha ever since I saw the first drafts of the
> architecture manual.  It's an impressively clean design and has
> excellent performance.  There's been plenty of work done on it showing 
> how well it can perform jobs traditionally given to DSPs.
> 
> The one drawback is that Alpha platforms tend to be expensive.  Compaq 
> has made noises about fixing this (but then again DEC made those
> noises N times in the past, each time without real success.)  For my
> own (amateur) purposes right now, I'd love an Alpha but probably won't 
> want to spend the money; a tempting alternative is the StrongARM.

I agree with everything you said but StrongARM lacks of floating point.
The new ARM10 has a *very* powerful floating extenstion. I think
this can be considered as an alternative to Alpha.

Kai

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