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by chasil 992 days ago
...after quite some time.

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.

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EV4 shipped in '92. WinNT for Alpha shipped in '93 or close to it. Is that really 'quite some time'?