Timeline for How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86?
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| Dec 10, 2022 at 21:57 | comment | added | Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica | Itanium architecture was a bit too tightly married to what could fit on a die at the time. Long-term it'd have been just slightly less expensive to keep up with better IC processes compared to x86, but it'd have still needed some heroics. | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 14:37 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | DEC sued Intel over the Pentium, PPro and PII, not Itanium. | |
| S Feb 9, 2020 at 5:36 | history | suggested | MarkDBlackwell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 23:51 | comment | added | Jim Nelson | The original poster was asking about specific architectural features of the Alpha that made it superior to x86. Could you elaborate? | |
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 20:01 | history | answered | Mike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |