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Prehistoric Times

New Linux Dictionary:
DEC Alpha: Ancient 64-bit processor featuring full 64-bit instruction set, advanced multiprocessor capabilities, and superior for its time performance. Despite many technical advantages, was eventually doomed by the lack of 32-bit mode and marketing blunders. See also: Compaq, alphacide.

Tome of the Penguin:
... Legends speak of the great processor of old, The Alpha, which means The First, who strolled across the Lands of the Long Words long before the mankind was ready for this feat, until, lonely and desperate, did he go to, never to return... He was a great friend of the Penguin, and his passing was mourned.