How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86?
2020年2月6日 · The DEC Alpha, released in 1992, seems like an early implementation of a fully 64-bit microprocessor architecture. Its release led to quite a bit of both marketing hype and …
Why did DEC develop Alpha instead of continuing with MIPS?
2020年12月7日 · The main thrust of the marketing behind the DEC Alpha was its 64-bit microprocessor architecture. They got there years before potential competitors, including …
hardware - DEC Alpha: why no 8/16-bit load/stores?
2020年2月25日 · The first version of the DEC Alpha had no load/store instructions for 8 or 16-bit values; if you wanted to deal with data of such sizes, you had to do it by shifting and masking …
dec - Understanding PALcode - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
2021年5月3日 · On the Alpha, PALcode acts as a replacement for microcode (§1.1). Low-level functions that would normally be controlled by microcode are instead handled using code …
What happened to all those Unix workstations in the '90s?
2022年2月1日 · Even DEC Alpha DS10s were PCI-based but the lack of extensive graphics didn't make it a powerhouse unless it had graphics processing boards that cost 5-digit sums of …
Was There a Release of WMI for Windows NT 4.0 Running on DEC …
2021年1月22日 · I could also speculate that there may have been a separate download for DEC Alpha NT4 systems. For completion sake, it is worth noting that Windows NT 4 was originally …
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Did Windows NT 4 emulate x86 on non-Intel platforms?
2023年6月12日 · FX!32 is a software emulator program that allows Win32 programs built for the Intel x86 instruction set to execute on DEC Alpha-based systems running Windows NT. …
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Why did Microsoft start Windows NT at all?
2022年12月3日 · Towards the end of the 80s, a number of threats for the PC ecosystem were emerging. The first was RISC CPUs, which provided greater performance than x86-style …