I bet the Office software was riddled with C++ undefined behavior. The Alpha was one of the closest CPUs to the mythical Deathstation 9000 which will destroy yo

I bet the Office software was riddled with C++ undefined behavior. The Alpha was one of the closest CPUs to the mythical Deathstation 9000 which will destroy you if you make even one mistake in your code. Like Itanium, compiling for Alpha with -O3 would expose you to large amounts of bugs in your code and bugs in the compiler too.