All Things Microsoft > Microsoft Hardware

x86 or Alpha

<< < (2/4) > >>

Lead Head:
yep, i believe those are the ones that needed massive heatsinks, i do not know to much about old stuff because i am only a kid so, you get the point, I wonder what AMDs architecture was before they switched to x86

WMD:
AMD was always x86.  Before CPUs they made FPUs to go along with the

mobrien_12:
The Alpha's were RISC architecture chips and they belonged to DEC.  I remember there being 1 GHz alpha chips years before x86 architecture hit those clock speeds.  From what I understand, they were pretty expensive, and relegated to the server or workstation market.

KernelPanic:
Yeh they were pretty cool, but Digital sold out to Compaq who sold out to HP  and in the end the Alpha was killed off.
Like most *NIX workstation arches it was RISC, big cache, kickass speed.
Old versions of NT could be used as could OpenVMS and some other shit.

Lead Head:
i wonder of you can use Mac OS X on an Alpha since both are RISC cpus, just a thought

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page