On 29 December 2017 at 19:54, Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com> wrote:

I was part of the team that built the first Alpha machine, the Alpha Demonstration Unit, see 

I couldn't access this on my phone - no FTP client - so I blindly assumed that it was DEC Technical Journal Vol. 8 no. 3.  That turned out to be completely untrue, but in a perhaps amusing way - one of the articles was Bob Supnik discussing the reasoning behind the original development of SIM(H), intended to preserve computing history.

As far as the article you posted - from Vol. 4 no. 3 - the idea that 35 prototypes were created in ECL and running as a multiprocessor system, taking over 4kW not including the front end, is absolutely remarkable to me.  Does any of that original code for the front end still exist?

-Henry