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To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (142923)9/6/2001 8:58:37 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
Re: wasn't this the goal of Alpha (about 1992 time frame)

Alpha, (like Itanium, 860/960, and iapx432) used an entirely new instruction set.

That lack of compatibility is what killed it and Intel's two previous attempts at getting away from IBM PC compatible code.