First developed by Digital after they
decided not to use MIPS CPU's anymore. As Digital was bought by Compaq later, the Alpha architecture was
maintained by Compaq from thereon. Nowadays Alpha Processors are mainly used
in high performant server and workstation systems, running either Tru64
UNIX, OpenVMS or Linux. The development of the Alpha architecture has been
stopped only recently in favor to the development of the
IA64 architecture by Intel.