Alpha Architecture, lecture by Richard L. Sites and Dirk Meyer

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Alpha Architecture, a lecture by Richard L. Sites and Dirk Meyer. The video was recorded in April, 1992.
From University Video Communications' catalog:
"The Alpha architecture is a RISC architecture designed for high-performance and longevity. Sites and Meyer distinguish between the architecture as a paper document, describing the behavior of all Alpha implementations as seen by the machine-language programmer, and the various (chip) implementations. This talk highlights the architectural goals, distinctive features of the architecture, and some first implementation details of the Digital 21064 chip."
Lot number: X6636.2013
Catalog number: 102624691

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@lawrencemanning 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing material. Absolutely fantastic that this has been preserved and is available to everyone.

@rabidbigdog 2 жыл бұрын

The destruction of Digital and Alpha remains a crime in American business history.

@leocomerford 2 жыл бұрын

The predictions from 2:52 until about 4m 43s seem to have been _eerily_ accurate. This was 1992, remember.

@NuGanjaTron 2 жыл бұрын

... good thing I reconsidered keeping my DEC3000 Flamingo box. Btw, I find the architecture of their sweaters equally fascinating. 😆

@randyhelzerman Жыл бұрын

Retrospectively, one of the saddest videos on KZfaq. If it described something which might have been, that would be sad enough. But no, this is much worse. It describes something we actually HAD and threw away with both hands.

@abrahamspam3243 3 ай бұрын

I have read that Alpha chips were so fast because they were hand laid out, competition was using machine layout. So I have heard anyway.

@albertabramson3157 Жыл бұрын

Q: Why didn't you guys add Instruction X? A: We attempted to implement Instruction X and found that it interfered with more aggressive pipelining. Q: Really? A: Really.