Roy Tam
derSammlerTask for today: install Red Hat #Linux 7.2 on the #AlphaServer DS15. Took me ages to find a copy that actually boots and not crash when starting the kernel...
meanwhile both winocm-hacked-qemu-alpha and gdwnldsKSC's es40 emulator come with ability to install windows nt/2000 axp on them, and having different set of issues while I tried to compile stbiview(picview) on them.
compiling j40 in alpha is getting "error C2099: initializer is not a constant" on some float variable declaration is just strange, and some other float variable declaration with division gets "error C2124: divide or mod by zero" while divisor is not zero.
even if these float variable declarations are workarounded by manually evaluating them, it can still be miscompiled and crash when affected code is being executed.
#retrocomputing #retroprogramming #dec #alpha #axp
