I loved working on DEC Alphas. They seemed to me like the best of breed conventional 64 bit machines, and it was sad when we quit buying them because x86 boxes were cheaper.
> it seems to me that almost all the innovations Intel brought to the Pentium lines of CPU over many years were basically reimplementing features pioneered by the DEC Alpha
I can't find a strong source to link, but I thought most of the Alpha team ended up at Intel. If so, that would explain the trickling in of re-implementations.
> it seems to me that almost all the innovations Intel brought to the Pentium lines of CPU over many years were basically reimplementing features pioneered by the DEC Alpha
I can't find a strong source to link, but I thought most of the Alpha team ended up at Intel. If so, that would explain the trickling in of re-implementations.