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by jabl 1781 days ago
I suspect that whatever the virtues of the Alpha architecture [1], DEC simply didn't have the muscle to stay in the game with exponentially increasing R&D costs.

[1] And it's not like Alpha was some shining beauty of ISA design either. Early versions lacking sub-word load/store, the absolutely crazy memory consistency model, ...

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Wasn't the byte stuff due to patent kerfuffle with MIPS?
AFAIK, yes.