On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Paul Thompson wrote:
> 
> > I am pretty sure Alpha was DEC's first 64 bit design.
> 
> Guess that is true. But then again, the Alpha was also out by 1992 unless
> my memory fails me.
> The VAX always was, and always will be a 32 bit machine however...

the alpha before it was named alpha was called eVAX - the source for some
confusion (just as the vax was pdp a decade and a half earlier).

there were vax designes that were upgradeable to vax

while alpha was 64 bit, VMS up to 7 was only a 32 bit OS on the alpha -
again a source for confusion (32 bit  sign extended addresses were used).