I think it's interesting to consider that Alpha was in some of the fastest supercomputers in the world around the time it was cancelled. Somehow, some people st

I think it's interesting to consider that Alpha was in some of the fastest supercomputers in the world around the time it was cancelled. Somehow, some people still believe that it was cancelled for technical reasons, and that the reasons weren't related to Intel wanting to push Itanic as hard as they could. I still run a dual 1 GHz AlphaServer DS25 in colo. Its performance is excellent, particularly when one considers that it's more than twenty years old. The build quality is better than any x86 server one can get today - the traces have a three dimensional look to them, the cables from the power supply look like they'd be good for attaching a starter to a car battery, expansion is incredible, and, of course, like all good servers, it has a whole machine system management that's 100% controllable over serial, as it should be. Performance wise, it's faster at most things than a dual 1.5 GHz Sun Fire V245 which is several years newer with PCIe, DDR2 memory and so on. It's an impressive processor architecture, and I keep hoping someone brings it back to life in FPGA or via, perhaps, via something like the Chinese Sunway architecture.