DEC Alpha

The DEC Alpha, also known as the Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit RISC microprocessor originally developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), which used it in its own line of workstations and servers. Designed as a successor to the VAX line of computers, it supported the VMS operating system, as well as Digital UNIX. Later open source operating systems also ran on the Alpha, notably Linux and BSD UNIX flavours. Microsoft supported the processor until Windows NT 4.0 SP6 but did not extend Alpha support beyond beta 3 of Windows 2000.

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RISC - Microprocessor - Fab - Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) - VAX - VMS - Digital UNIX - Open source - Linux - BSD - Microsoft - Windows NT 4.0 - Windows 2000

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