Comment by tyingq

I remember thinking that Alpha might eventually topple x86. At the time, there was no x86-64, and Linux was still buggy, so the RISC platforms were thriving...and Alpha was at the top. Then Microsoft made NT run on Alpha. All in the early to mid 90's. Then the 1-2 combination of the Itanium distraction followed by the Opteron + 64 bit Linux, and then Alpha died.