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The Alpha team was lead by Daniel Dobberpuhl who started PA-Semi, later acquired by Apple. So this new M1 chip is a direct descendant of the Alpha..
by jhallenworld 6y ago
The Alpha team was lead by Daniel Dobberpuhl who started PA-Semi, later acquired by Apple. So this new M1 chip is a direct descendant of the Alpha..
- gumby 6y agoI was not aware of that. Interesting!
- oblio 6y agoIs it, though? Can anyone compare/contrast the 2 designs? Just because the same people work on them, doesn't mean they're necessarily related (Alpha vs ARM). Dave Cutler worked on VMS and NT and as far as I know NT is quite different, for example.
- tilt_error 6y agoThey were not very different under the hood. In fact, many units within the OS were similarly/equally named. The UI was a different beast all together and I remember the UI crashing in WinNT 3.51 while the kernel and services were happily chugging along.