[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jnvpvb$cfs$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> 
>> I believe that the N-VAX microprocessor addressed those issues 
>> rather well.  It was (if my memory and facts are correct) 
>> basically a RISC processor that implemented the VAX 
>> instruction set.
> 
> You can do that, but it is much harder than evan IA32.

   DEC has already stated that the VAX 9000 chip was basically a RISC
   chip that looked like a VAX to the outside world.