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Dirk Meyer ended up at AMD, it was why the likes of Hypertransport borrowed/adapted the Alpha EV6 protocol and kicked serious arse.

Always loved Alpha's, their influence cast a long shadow.



K7 Athlon's actually just used EV6 bus, to the point where motherboards were compatible with each others if you made a connector adaptor and replaced firmware.

I have had very unconfirmed rumour that K8 involved so much of DEC stuff (starting with it's obviously EV7-derived design) that at one point it still had support for VAX floating point...


Thats class! thanks for the info.




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