In 1993 I had a DEC AXP 3000/300L workstation (Alpha with a 32-bit memory bus). It was fast, but the DEC OSF/1 OS was pretty bad and hobbled the machine. There

In 1993 I had a DEC AXP 3000/300L workstation (Alpha with a 32-bit memory bus). It was fast, but the DEC OSF/1 OS was pretty bad and hobbled the machine. There were lots of portability issues, for instance GNU Emacs wasn't 64-bit clean whereas Lucid Emacs was, so for two decades I ran Lucid/XEmacs instead. Alpha was the first microprocessor to hit the billion instructions per second mark (BIPS-0) and was used to build oa 50Gbps router in 1998 using Alphas 21164 with routing code running entirely in L1 cache: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall12/cos561/papers/partridge-50gbs-98.pdf https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall12/cos561/p...