Alpha was astonishing when it came out. It ran x86 code in emulation faster than any real x86 could go. Its only serious flaw was its chaotic memory bus operati

Alpha was astonishing when it came out. It ran x86 code in emulation faster than any real x86 could go. Its only serious flaw was its chaotic memory bus operation ordering, which came to matter when you had two or more of them. Alpha died because DEC died, not the reverse.