The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

Windows NT Magazine / December 1998 The Alpha 21264: NT's Greatest RISC Tom R. Halfhill [Editor's note: This article was originally scheduled for publication in the September 1998 issue of BYTE Magazine but was canceled when BYTE folded in June 1998. It appeared instead in Windows NT Magazine and in C'T, a German computer magazine. This text is the original English version.] While the world waits for Intel's 64-bit Merced chip and Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows NT, Digital Equipment is of