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It's important in the historical context of the Alpha AXP to also remember the DEC PRISM architecture. Canceled in 1988. One of many architectures killed off
by loph 2mo ago
It's important in the historical context of the Alpha AXP to also remember the DEC PRISM architecture. Canceled in 1988. One of many architectures killed off by DEC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PRISM
Killing Prism sent David Cutler into the arms of Microsoft.
Another dead architecture was Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_project
Killing Jupiter sent many of DEC's DECsystem-10 customers to IBM.
Years later, they both seem like bad decisions.
- panick21_ 2mo agoJupiter was just a PDP-10, I don't think killing Jupiter was bad. The VAX was insanely successful and adopted by a large amount of people. And Jupiter was a very expensive project and it basically failed to do what it wanted to do and was already late. They stopped with PDP-10 because nobody seemed to be able to make a next generation architecture work. Arguably, all ECL projects should have been killed, even Venus.