Re: Alpha recommendations
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:48:59AM +0200, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> I am very pro-alpha, BUT - please RUN BENCHMARKS before buying. If you
> use Fortran, you may well see NOT so great results (I have)...
Please do be sure to use the most recent versions of egcs for testing;
they're actively improving the speed of generated code.
> > * Is there a Netscape available for Alpha? I've never seen anything
> > but i386 binaries on their site. If not, what does everybody
> > do for a web browser??
>
> Yes, you can use the DU copy of netscape.
_Only_ if you have a license for Digital UNIX for the machine in
question. Running DU binaries requires DU libraries, which are
covered by the DU license. (The DU license is several thousand
dollars, I believe.)
Really, Mozilla is a usable alternative for web browsing. The version
I've been using (the LSL static-linked Motif binary) crashes a bit
more than I'd like, but it's sort of usable.
-andy
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