alt Hacker NewsThe bit about how the AMD Athlon (K7) uses the same bus, and how they planned to make Slot A Alphas where the only adjustment an Althon motherboard would need is a different BIOS. Imagine what might have been, especially as Alpha Windows 2000 had a built in FX!32. Cheap Alpha systems with a good x86 compatibility story, it could've been a contender.
(Yeah, I know, several stars would've had to align for it to actually work).
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rasz • yesterday at 3:53 PM
There was a problem with that idea, DEC engineers working for AMD made K7 too fast for Alpha to compete.
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"Cheap" and "Alpha" would have been hard to pull of simultaneously. But it would have been really cool.