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Jim Keller has stated in at least one talk that DEC went bankrupt after Windows NT on Alpha kept crashing because they'd designed the Alpha with weak memory ord
by pengaru 3y ago
Jim Keller has stated in at least one talk that DEC went bankrupt after Windows NT on Alpha kept crashing because they'd designed the Alpha with weak memory ordering and MS wouldn't implement the necessary memory barriers.
Didn't sound like Itanic played a part at all.
- p_l 3y agoItanic played part after Compaq buyout, where Compaq decided to bank all on Itanium sight unseen of actual usable parts, IIRC. The end result was that they had to restart development of EV7 then restart its production again, because many, many ex-DEC customers didn't want to move to Itanium (customers running Tru64 mostly moved to Linux on amd64 or occasionally to other RISC vendors instead of dealing with HP-UX, whereas OpenVMS customers kept to Alphas which outperformed Itanium usually or moved off the platform completely, with stragglers now moving to amd64)
- javitron 3y agoAlpha was on life support by the time Compaq bought DEC. AXP was literally one of the things that basically killed DEC. By the time HP bought Compaq, AXP was on legacy mode. Plus Itanium was as much of an HP architecture as it was intel's, so it made no sense for HP to develop AXP further.