On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:55 AM, Ong Beng Hui wrote:
>> there is a comprehensive article about Alpha CPUs and their history. 
>> Could be interesting to the audience on this list, at least 
>> informative. I would read it for sure, but I have written it ;)
>> http://www.alasir.com/alpha/alpha_history.html
>
> Excellent article.
>
> Was working for DEC in 1995 ~ 1996.
>
> However, just my personal thoughts... DEC Alpha didn't really go away.
>
> We still see AMD chip with a EV6 bus interface. The new Intel hyper 
> threading
> seems to be very familar to the old roadmap of EV7, EV8, EV9, 
> Simultaneous
> Multithreading feature.

   Well, that and the fact that you can still pick up a telephone and 
order a brand-new Alpha-based system.

           -Dave

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