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It's interesting how we've come full circle. Some of the engineers who worked at DEC later worked at PA Semi and Apple after the acquisition, helping develop Ap
by jamesy0ung 2y ago
It's interesting how we've come full circle. Some of the engineers who worked at DEC later worked at PA Semi and Apple after the acquisition, helping develop Apple Silicon. DEC's Alpha workstations running Unix were among the most powerful systems of their time, and now, decades later, Apple Silicon has brought us back to high-performance RISC Unix workstations — just with a different flavor of ARM instead of Alpha.
- adrian_b 2y agoAlso many of the engineers that have developed AMD Athlon (launched in 1999), the first AMD CPU that has exceeded the performance of the contemporaneous Intel CPUs, have come from the DEC Alpha designers.
- rbanffy 2y agoI love to remind myself that Apple is the heir of the RISC Unix workstation market. Well, it’s actually NeXT, but this is a minor detail.