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Wasn't much of the Athlon designed by laid-off DEC Alpha engineers that AMD snapped up? Makes sense that AMD64 makes sense to an Alpha fanboy :)
by antod 1y ago
Wasn't much of the Athlon designed by laid-off DEC Alpha engineers that AMD snapped up? Makes sense that AMD64 makes sense to an Alpha fanboy :)
- kjs3 1y agoYeah...look up Jim Keller. And AMD basically recycled the later Alpha system bus as the K7 bus to the extent there was very short lived buzz about having machines that could be either x86-64 or Alpha.