Timeline for Why did DEC develop Alpha instead of continuing with MIPS?
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 13:45 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | Then there was the DEC Rainbow 100 family that all had Zilog and Intel CPUs. And actually I think there were Z80 modules that could be installed in some of the VTs. | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 13:04 | comment | added | dave | True, but that doesn't result in a commitment to use the same microarchitecture in the future, whereas the choice of user-visible instruction set does. | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 12:25 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | The KL-10 CPU used a processor built by another company to run the microcode that interpreted PDP-10 machine language. | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 17:51 | comment | added | dave | As recounted by various sources, MIPS workstations were very much a skunkworks project. | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 16:42 | comment | added | RETRAC | @ChrisStratton In the decade before that, they also shipped PDP-11s built with outside LSI/VLSI technology because they basically were forced to. And as soon as they could, they brought that in-house. DEC always had a vertically-integrated approach. | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 16:04 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | Nonetheless DEC shipped a lot of MIPS based workstations. | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 13:20 | history | answered | dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |