Alpha

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1) The DEC Alpha microprocessor.

See also: processor, platform

2) Alpha software: very early release of software. Alpha releases of a program are generally very unstable and are meant for testing purposes only, not general usage. The intent of an alpha release is to receive bug reports from the general user-base, not just the regular developers and testers.

See also: open source

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