Re:More on x86 – The Chip Letter
by toast0 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:36PM
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> I think there was, once upon a time, a motherboard that could swap between x86 and Alpha processors with only minor reconfiguration (like, changing a jumper minor).
Deep into rumors that have been circulating in my brain for two decades now... But supposedly Slot A for the (original) K7 Athlon was very similar to the Alpha CPU bus (wikipedia says "The Athlon utilizes the Alpha 21264's EV6 bus architecture with double data rate (DDR) technology.[citation needed]"). The K7 team had some people who had worked on the Alpha at DEC, so there were lots of comparisons drawn.
Deep into rumors that have been circulating in my brain for two decades now... But supposedly Slot A for the (original) K7 Athlon was very similar to the Alpha CPU bus (wikipedia says "The Athlon utilizes the Alpha 21264's EV6 bus architecture with double data rate (DDR) technology.[citation needed]"). The K7 team had some people who had worked on the Alpha at DEC, so there were lots of comparisons drawn.