Fwd: an article about Alpha CPUs

William H. Magill magill at mcgillsociety.org
Wed May 18 19:18:13 UTC 2005


An interesting article on the history of the Alpha CPU was recently  
posted to the NetBSD mailing list:

Begin forwarded message:
>> From: "Paul V. Bolotoff" <walter at alasir.com>
>> Date: May 17, 2005 3:29:44 PM EDT
>> To: port-alpha at netbsd.org
>> Subject: an article about Alpha CPUs
>> Reply-To: walter at alasir.com
>>
>>
>> there is a comprehensive article about Alpha CPUs and their  
>> history. Could be interesting to the audience on this list, at  
>> least informative. I would read it for sure, but I have written it ;)
>>
>> http://www.alasir.com/alpha/alpha_history.html
>>
>> By the way, if there is anything unclear or even incorrect, I  
>> would like to know!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Paul


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