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  • Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....

    From Winthorpe@VERT/WOOWOO to All on Wed Jan 20 13:50:43 2010
    I don't know if anyone here has ever used Visual C++ for the DEC Alpha, but I'm wondering if anyone else has fought with it as much as I have...?

    I have version 8 from the NT 3.5 SDK, and you have to run it without optimizations to get anything to run, version 10 from Visual C++ 4.0 which also sucks, but VC 6 seems "ok".....

    How did people cope with such a poor compiler?

    As much as I'd love to throw MS under the bus, it's got DEC stamped all over it, did they deliberatly sabatauge the compiler??

    And no, while I may have VC6 I haven't even dreampt of trying to compile synchronet for it...... even if it did work, I think I'm the last NT/Alpha user out there.



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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Winthorpe on Fri Jan 22 17:37:31 2010
    On 1/20/2010 11:50 AM, Winthorpe wrote:
    And no, while I may have VC6 I haven't even dreampt of trying to compile synchronet for it...... even if it did work, I think I'm the last NT/Alpha user
    out there.

    Probably... Anyone else still running that hardware is probably using Linux or BSD.

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  • From John Guillory@VERT/MAINLINE to Tracker1 on Tue Mar 2 03:51:30 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Tracker1 to Winthorpe on Fri Jan 22 2010 05:37 pm

    Probably... Anyone else still running that hardware is probably using Linux or BSD.
    Speaking of which, anyone feel like porting Synchronet to the Cray-2?
    (yeah right, like anyone with the money for a Cray-2 would be running a
    BBS on it.... But then again... if I had the money for a Cray-2, just
    imagine what I could do.... get a bank of like 30 modems, and a T-2
    straight to the cray-2, re-compile Synchronet to allow for like 100
    telnet's in and about 30 ftp's in... Hey, what the heck, if you've got
    the money for a system like that, you'd have the money for the phone
    lines and the internet bandwidth!)


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to John Guillory on Tue Mar 2 14:16:22 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: John Guillory to Tracker1 on Tue Mar 02 2010 03:51 am

    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Tracker1 to Winthorpe on Fri Jan 22 2010 05:37 pm

    Probably... Anyone else still running that hardware is probably using Linux or BSD.
    Speaking of which, anyone feel like porting Synchronet to the Cray-2?
    (yeah right, like anyone with the money for a Cray-2 would be running a
    BBS on it.... But then again... if I had the money for a Cray-2, just
    imagine what I could do.... get a bank of like 30 modems, and a T-2
    straight to the cray-2, re-compile Synchronet to allow for like 100
    telnet's in and about 30 ftp's in... Hey, what the heck, if you've got
    the money for a system like that, you'd have the money for the phone
    lines and the internet bandwidth!)

    Synchronet already supports 100+ terminal server nodes and 30+ FTP clients. No recompiling would be necessary (to support those numbers, at least).

    digital man

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  • From John Guillory@VERT/MAINLINE to Digital Man on Wed Mar 3 00:14:32 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Digital Man to John Guillory on Tue Mar 02 2010 02:16 pm

    Speaking of which, anyone feel like porting Synchronet to the Cray-2?
    (yeah right, like anyone with the money for a Cray-2 would be running
    Synchronet already supports 100+ terminal server nodes and 30+ FTP clients. No recompiling would be necessary (to support those numbers, at least).
    I was implying having Synchronet run ON the Cray computer ;-)
    Not that I personally own one, but would love to own one and if I did,
    you better believe I'd love to have synchronet running on it....


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  • From Smole@VERT to John Guillory on Wed Mar 3 06:47:05 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: John Guillory to Digital Man on Wed Mar 03 2010 12:14 am

    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Digital Man to John Guillory on Tue Mar 02 2010 02:16 pm

    Speaking of which, anyone feel like porting Synchronet to the Cray-
    (yeah right, like anyone with the money for a Cray-2 would be runni
    Synchronet already supports 100+ terminal server nodes and 30+ FTP client No recompiling would be necessary (to support those numbers, at least).
    I was implying having Synchronet run ON the Cray computer ;-)
    Not that I personally own one, but would love to own one and if I did,
    you better believe I'd love to have synchronet running on it....



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  • From Digital Man@VERT to John Guillory on Thu Mar 4 01:49:28 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: John Guillory to Digital Man on Wed Mar 03 2010 12:14 am

    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Digital Man to John Guillory on Tue Mar 02 2010 02:16 pm

    Speaking of which, anyone feel like porting Synchronet to the Cray-2?
    (yeah right, like anyone with the money for a Cray-2 would be running
    Synchronet already supports 100+ terminal server nodes and 30+ FTP clients. No recompiling would be necessary (to support those numbers, at least).
    I was implying having Synchronet run ON the Cray computer ;-)

    Yeah, I got that. :-)

    digital man

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to John Guillory on Sat Mar 13 02:31:23 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: John Guillory to Digital Man on Wed Mar 03 2010 12:14 am

    I was implying having Synchronet run ON the Cray computer ;-)
    Not that I personally own one, but would love to own one and if I did,
    you better believe I'd love to have synchronet running on it....

    Blowing bubbles costs more than buying it.

    Seriously, Synchronet wouldn't benefit from a vector computer.

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  • From Purple Nurple@VERT/FLAMINGS to Deuce on Sat Mar 13 15:04:32 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Deuce to John Guillory on Sat Mar 13 2010 02:31 am

    I was implying having Synchronet run ON the Cray computer ;-)
    Not that I personally own one, but would love to own one and if I did,
    you better believe I'd love to have synchronet running on it....

    Blowing bubbles costs more than buying it.

    Seriously, Synchronet wouldn't benefit from a vector computer.

    I figured that the electricity costs would eat someone alive. That said, putting synchronet on it would be a fun "because it's there" exercise to score some nerd points. Heck, I think it'd be awsesome, just so long as his neighbor doesn't notice the extension cord... :)

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  • From John Guillory@VERT/MAINLINE to Deuce on Sat Mar 13 16:37:48 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Deuce to John Guillory on Sat Mar 13 2010 02:31 am

    Blowing bubbles costs more than buying it.
    Seriously, Synchronet wouldn't benefit from a vector computer.
    Dude, I could care less about the cost issue (assuming i had the $$$
    to buy a cray-2.... ) It would be increadibly awesome to have the
    login screen say it was running on a Cray2 and maybe have an option to
    create user accounts on the cray and allow users to shell from the BBS
    to the cray... And SBBS could handle all the e-mail on the cray.... ;-)


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  • From John Guillory@VERT/MAINLINE to Purple Nurple on Sat Mar 13 16:39:24 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: Purple Nurple to Deuce on Sat Mar 13 2010 03:04 pm

    score some nerd points. Heck, I think it'd be awsesome, just so long as
    his neighbor doesn't notice the extension cord... :)
    Shhh, didn't you see Married with Children? There's a big heavy wire running to the utility pole.... But when it blows, the whole streets out!
    look out for the torches and pitch forks!


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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to John Guillory on Tue Mar 16 15:20:48 2010
    Re: Re: Windows NT / Dec Alpha C compiler question....
    By: John Guillory to Deuce on Sat Mar 13 2010 04:37 pm

    Blowing bubbles costs more than buying it.
    Seriously, Synchronet wouldn't benefit from a vector computer.

    Dude, I could care less about the cost issue (assuming i had the $$$
    to buy a cray-2.... ) It would be increadibly awesome to have the
    login screen say it was running on a Cray2 and maybe have an option to
    create user accounts on the cray and allow users to shell from the BBS
    to the cray... And SBBS could handle all the e-mail on the cray.... ;-)

    I think it may have been a Cray-2 that was "free" to anyone who came and got it... which involved a lot of construction as the building was built around the computer. Some university, but I can't remember the details.

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