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    The Alpha 21264 is a RISC microprocessor developed by Digital Equipment Corporation launched on 19 October 1998. The 21264 implemented the Alpha instruction...
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    company, the 21164-based AlphaPC 164 and AlphaPC 164LX, the 21164PC-based AlphaPC 164SX and AlphaPC 164RX and the 21264-based AlphaPC 264DP. Several third...
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  • at the 11th Annual Microprocessor Forum, where it was described as an Alpha 21264 with a 1.5 MB 6-way set-associative on-die secondary cache, an integrated...
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    Digital's flagship microprocessor. It was succeeded by the Alpha 21264 in 1998. First silicon of the Alpha 21164 was produced in February 1994, and the OpenVMS...
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  • designing a number of processors, including the VAX 8800, the Alpha 21164 and the Alpha 21264 processors. Prior to DEC, he had worked at Harris Corporation...
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    200 MHz front-side bus on Duron, XP and Sempron processors, based on the Alpha 21264 EV6 bus. Initially launched with 100 MHz FSB support in the earliest...
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    more] nondeterministic. Some superscalar processors (MIPS R8000, Alpha 21264, and Alpha 21464 (EV8)) fetch each line of instructions with a pointer to the...
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    originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its Alpha 21264 microprocessor. Slot A is mechanically compatible but electrically incompatible...
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    "LGA 4189 Socket and Hardware" (PDF). Hachman, Mark (February 2, 1999). "Alpha camp moves to "Slot B" connector to push further into workstations". EE...
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  • entries only if they match the current process ID. For example, in the Alpha 21264, each TLB entry is tagged with an address space number (ASN), and only...
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