The Death of Alpha

“To the outside observer, improvements in PC architecture are evolutionary but logical. Processors advance inevitably in speed and performance, in happy accordance with Moore’s Law. For Nebojsa Novakovic, a consultant in high-end computing systems, that’s hardly the case. The demise of the DEC Alpha processor is a case in point. A performance leader was killed off by corporate whim.”

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