[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
>
> I don't get it what magical design features the Alpha has, which
> would make it still attractive, even if it had been developed further.


Alpha is the only native 64 bit architectire that worked and performed
well. The only other native 64 bit is IA64 and we all knwo who well it
TANKED !

The thing about Alpha is that it was cleanly designed. And this is what
alled DEC engineers to implement features way before others.

Remember that 64 bit x86 came from the 8086. So there is a lot of
baggage there that makes improving it harder.