DEC Alpha support was dropped from Linux 6.10. I find it fascinating that it managed to outlive support for Itanium, which was Alpha's replacement. VLIW is a truly cursed technology.
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What makes you think AXP had anything to do with VLIW? AFAIR they had normal superscalar design and other than Compaq planning to phase Alphas out in favour of Itanium they had nothing to do with each other. Design-wise they are completely unrelated.
Unlike Itanium, they were commercially successful, that is why HP even attempted to revive it and make newer CPUs — that is probably why it outlived Itanium, but then that got sacked too.
@m0xee itanium was VLIW, not Alpha.
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Yeah, your wording confused me a bit:
> Itanium, which was Alpha's replacement. VLIW is a truly cursed technology
One might think that Itanium was somehow a successor to AXP in a way that it's the continuation of same ideas/design, which it wasn't 🤷
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Look, even the Wikipedia page doesn't mention VLIW once🤷
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha