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    instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Alpha was designed to replace 32-bit VAX complex instruction set computers...
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    server market, the DEC Alpha product line began to make successful inroads in the mid-1990s, but was too late to save the company. DEC was acquired in June...
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    VAX (redirect from DEC VAX)
    family was a huge success for DEC, with the last members arriving in the early 1990s. The VAX was succeeded by the DEC Alpha, which included several features...
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    Software". Alpha AXP Architecture (PDF) (Second ed.). Digital Press. 1995. ISBN 1-55558-145-5. EY-TI32E-DP. "Part II-B / DEC OSF/1 Software". Alpha AXP Architecture...
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  • for a variety of processor architectures, initially IA-32, MIPS, and DEC Alpha, with PowerPC, Itanium, x86-64 and ARM supported in later releases. An...
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    Alpha, PowerPC and x86. Although very expensive, these classic Tadpoles won favour as a method to show corporation's proprietary software (IBM/HP/DEC)...
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  • OpenVMS (redirect from DEC VMS)
    minicomputer in 1977. OpenVMS has subsequently been ported to run on DEC Alpha systems, the Itanium-based HPE Integrity Servers, and select x86-64 hardware...
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    Starting where PRISM left off, the DEC Alpha program started in 1989. Introduced in 1977, the VAX was a runaway success for DEC, cementing its place as the world's...
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    Tru64 UNIX (redirect from DEC OSF/1 AXP)
    required the SRM boot firmware found on Alpha-based computer systems. In 1988, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) joined with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and...
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    it xmosaic. Marc Andreessen announced the project's first release, the "alpha/beta version 0.5," on January 23, 1993. Version 1.0 was released on April...
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  • to support large networks and to be portable, compiled for Intel x86, DEC Alpha and MIPS based workstations and servers. It was Microsoft's first 32-bit...
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    the name suggests, the AlphaStations were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaStations comprise Tru64 UNIX...
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    The varieties of RISC processor design include the ARC processor, the DEC Alpha, the AMD Am29000, the ARM architecture, the Atmel AVR, Blackfin, Intel...
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  • Look up alpha, Alpha, Α, or α in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alpha (Α or α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Alpha or ALPHA may also refer...
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    The Alpha 21064 is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corporation that implemented the Alpha (introduced as the Alpha AXP)...
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  • these workstations. The Alpha-based Multias came with the TGA (DEC 21030) graphics adapter. Standard peripherals on both Alpha and Intel models included...
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  • professional world. Windows NT 4.0 and its predecessors supported PowerPC, DEC Alpha and MIPS R4000 (although some of the platforms implement 64-bit computing...
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    and HP. AlphaServers were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaServers are Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital...
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    against Dell, as well as a risky acquisition of DEC in 1998 (which includes the inheritance of the DEC Alpha family of CPUs), Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard...
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  • a text mode display. Twin is tested on Linux (x86, PowerPC/Power ISA, DEC Alpha, SPARC), FreeBSD, and macOS. Written by Massimiliano Ghilardi, Twin started...
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  • Corporation (DEC) Alpha processor using Tru64 UNIX. In 2021 a new version was released as Portable Genera which runs on Tru64 UNIX on Alpha, Linux on x86-64...
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    towards the end of the second generation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was a serious contender in the small and medium machine marketplace. Meanwhile...
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  • Equipment Corporation (DEC) developed and maintained BLISS compilers for the PDP-10, PDP-11, VAX, DEC PRISM, MIPS, DEC Alpha, and Intel IA-32, The language...
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  • University, and is probably best known as the native Unix operating system for DEC Alpha architecture systems. In 1994, after AT&T had sold UNIX System V to Novell...
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    Max/FTS eventually migrated to a software-only application for SGI and DEC Alpha computers. It is the direct predecessor to jMax. See also Pd. A brief...
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  • then Alpha, Integrity, and most recently x86-64. Past names for the product include: BASIC-PLUS, Basic Plus 2 (BP2 or BASIC-Plus-2), VAX BASIC, DEC BASIC...
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    Alpha 21164 in their Alpha VME 5/352 and Alpha VME 5/480 single board computers and AlphaPC 164 and AlphaPC 164LX motherboards. Alpha partner Cray Research...
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  • the PRISM architecture evolved into the DEC Alpha architecture, Digital opted to port OSF/1 and VMS to Alpha instead of reusing MICA. To avoid a repetition...
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  • distinctive prompt of the firmware console in MicroVAX, VAXstation, and DEC Alpha computers (known as the SRM console in the latter). This is also the default...
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  • on DEC Alpha-based systems running Windows NT. Released in 1996, FX!32 was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to support their Alpha microprocessors...
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