26 Aug
2006
26 Aug
'06
1:50 p.m.
Ray wrote:
The Alpha chips were coded with EV - as in
Electro Vlassic. :-)
That is one of those things, like VME, where the "real meaning" is
kept secret. There are several hypotheses, the other one that makes sense
is that it stands for Extended VAX (which, when you trace it out, means
Extended Virtual Address Extension [of the PDP-11], so there's still a little bit of
PDP
in HP/DEC (until October...)
AXP however is known to mean nothing.
(could be a place shifting of something, e.g. VAX -> (v)AX[p]