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After Compaq bought Tandem, they said they were going to port NonStop from MIPS to the Alpha[0], but then cancelled that for Itanium[1]. I'm not sure if NonStop
by sillywalk 2mo ago
After Compaq bought Tandem, they said they were going to port NonStop from MIPS to the Alpha[0], but then cancelled that for Itanium[1]. I'm not sure if NonStop was ported/expanded from 32bit to 64bit when it was running on MIPS.
[0] https://www.scmp.com/article/256948/compaq-port-himalaya-alpha https://www.scmp.com/article/256948/compaq-port-himalaya-alp...
[1] https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/compaq-to-abandon-alpha-processor-move-entire-server-line-to-intel-chips https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/compaq-to-aban...