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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Digital Equipment Corporation (redirect from DEC (computer company))
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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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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Tadpole Computer (section DEC Alpha)
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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Memory management unit (section DEC Alpha)
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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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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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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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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the DEC's current DEC Alpha and StrongARM designs for $700 million in October 1997. This was part of a wider breakup of DEC being carried out by DEC CEO...
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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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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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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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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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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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the PRISM architecture evolved into the DEC Alpha architecture, Digital opted to port OSF/1 and VMS to Alpha instead of reusing MICA. The original goal...
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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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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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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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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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VSI BASIC for OpenVMS (redirect from DEC BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha)
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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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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Daniel W. Dobberpuhl (section DEC)
consulting engineers, DEC's highest technical positions. As such, he led the teams designing the first three generations of the DEC Alpha processor and in...
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Competitors included the superscalar PowerPC 601 (1993), SuperSPARC (1992), DEC Alpha 21064 (1992), AMD 29050 (1990), Motorola MC88110 (1991) and Motorola 68060...
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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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operating system. To port VMS to the DEC Alpha, VAX MACRO was implemented for the Alpha architecture. Since the Alpha used a different instruction set than...
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powers all recent Windows operating systems. It has run on IA-32, x64, DEC Alpha, MIPS architecture, PowerPC, Itanium, ARMv7, and ARM64 processors, but...
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