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...after quite some time. That delay was the kiss of death, for an architecture that could never have a low-power implementation (and thus could not run in a l
by chasil 3y ago
...after quite some time.
That delay was the kiss of death, for an architecture that could never have a low-power implementation (and thus could not run in a laptop), and had insanely weak memory barriers in an SMP configuration.
No, Alpha would not have survived. There was just no way.
- kjs3 3y agoEV4 shipped in '92. WinNT for Alpha shipped in '93 or close to it. Is that really 'quite some time'?