Alpha CPUs, was Re: [rescue] i860 Success

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> Dude... Crusty == bad.
>
> Sure Alpha EV7 is a 90's or 00's implementation of an 80's design
>
> The P4 is a 00's implementation of a 70's design
>
> Equal footing or worse for the P4/Xeon x86 family.
>
> POWER is sooo much newer in both design and fab.  PPC and power are
> early 90's design and current fab and implementation.


Actually if we follow the same analogy the POWER is a late 80s design too
:). I think the POWER1 was release in late 89.