I think the Alpha port may have been more significant because it required making...

		wtallis on June 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) I think the Alpha port may have been more significant because it required making Linux work on SMP systems with a very weak memory ordering model, in contrast to x86's strong ordering. I'm not aware of any SMP 68k systems, but that was definitely an important part of the Alpha ecosystem.