30 Dec
2017
30 Dec
'17
8:35 a.m.
On 12/29/17, Lawrence Stewart <stewart(a)serissa.com> wrote:
The EV3 was an early Alpha chip, in, I think, .9 micron CMOS, that did not
have an FPU, so the floating point was emulated. The first products were
200 MHz EV4 machines that were in .75 micron CMOS.
Yes. EV3 was a prototype, really, released as a development
breadboard platform for early adopters and ISVs. EV4 was the first
production Alpha.
-Paul W.