Comment Comment by loph It's important in the historical context of the Alpha AXP to also remember the DEC PRISM architecture. Canceled in 1988. One of many architectures killed off by DEC.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PRISMKilling Prism sent David Cutler into the arms of Microsoft.Another dead architecture was Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_projectKilling Jupiter sent many of DEC's DECsystem-10 customers to IBM.Years later, they both seem like bad decisions. parent loph 2 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PRISM
Killing Prism sent David Cutler into the arms of Microsoft.
Another dead architecture was Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_project
Killing Jupiter sent many of DEC's DECsystem-10 customers to IBM.
Years later, they both seem like bad decisions.