On January 28, 2022 4:41:31 PM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
After leaving Amdahl, my father went to a couple of other companies including Synopsys, Cadence, and Transitive Technologies (which made the original dynamic binary translation software for Apple's PowerPC to x86, aka Rosetta, a story for another time).
Some time in there, he gave me a tshirt he got from who knows where that DEC was using to promote the then new Alpha chip. I was so excited because I had just read about the Alpha in Byte magazine and was in the middle of the study of computer architecture and knew this was going to be the next great thing (oh well). I've been wearing it up until about a year ago when it had all but become tatters. I never did get to play with an Alpha machine, but so it goes...
"Oh well"? Alpha was a very successful architecture. It was never sold in Sears, but it was never meant to. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA