#Alpha VS. Pentium
15-Jul-93 05:48:10
Sb: #49309-#Alpha VS. Pentium
Fm: Dietmar Rudolph 100015,1632
To: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc] 70323,3375
Angelo,
> First, yes it is a very fasst processor and at the street price that DEC is
> planning, it should be a great seller. It iss running Windows NT and if 3DS
> goes that direction (which by Adesk's public endorsement of NT as the
> corporate direction is a VERY safe bet), then special versions of 3DS, ACAD,
> etc will not be necessary.
Oops, don't expect an NT program to run unmodified on a different NT
platform. With NT you'll get the same situation as with UNIX: Source code
compatibility (at best), but not executable compatibility.
An Autodesk product for NT will probably be for NT/Intel only. They have to
recompile/debug it on any other platform like NT/Alpha or NT/MIPS. As you
can see with the UNIX versions of AutoCAD, this is not a simple nor a high
priority task.
With the Alpha you might be able to run the NT/Intel version using it's
emulation software. But emulation usually slows the machine by a factor of
10 (or so).
Dietmar