That delay was the kiss of death, for an architecture that could never have a low-power implementation (and thus could not run in a laptop), and had insanely weak memory barriers in an SMP configuration.
No, Alpha would not have survived. There was just no way.
That delay was the kiss of death, for an architecture that could never have a low-power implementation (and thus could not run in a laptop), and had insanely weak memory barriers in an SMP configuration.
No, Alpha would not have survived. There was just no way.