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re: VAX->Alpha I don't know when they started it - but it was available to customers late 1994 if memory serves. The Itanium port was announced Sep 2001? A us
by eej71 7y ago
re: VAX->Alpha
I don't know when they started it - but it was available to customers late 1994 if memory serves.
The Itanium port was announced Sep 2001? A usable version for customers to deal with - spring 2005?
- icedchai 7y agoAlso consider DEC and HP had enormous engineering organizations. And Alpha was designed as extension of the VAX architecture, so presumably the port was less complicated. You can still find references to "EVAX", for "Extended VAX" in some of the headers, along with the EV* CPU model numbers. Itanium I know less about...