wiretap wrote on 2019-12-28, 01:29:
Yea the uptime and stability is unbelievable. Several hosts in production have been up for years performing their function with no crashes/halts/reboots. Definitely the highest quality machines and OS I have used.
Back in the days when Netscape Server Suite was "THE" thing for webdev, Alpha reigned absolute supreme.
We ran NT on a dual PPro box, and later brought in an Alpha box to cover all our shoddy asses in production release.
While the PPro box stuttered, crashed, and/or unstable with high traffic like drunken donkey, the Alpha rolled like a mercedes.
Later happened to take a processor design 101 from an Alpha architect guy who also worked for Intel.
The stories he spilled in class for arousement were the only things I still remember.
IMHO, Alpha is one of the absolute gems in CPU history for sure.