JF Mezei wrote: > Arne Vajhøj wrote: > >> DEC could have kept PDP-11 compatibility mode in all VAX'es and have >> added both PDP-11 and VAX compatibility modes to Alpha. > > > The lack of success of IA64 can be blamed squarely on the fact that IA64 > doesn't provide PDP-11 emulation :-) > Er. . . . How do you account for the success of Alpha?