What happened to DEC Alpha f/p?

We used to have a DEC Alpha machine whose f/p performance was fantastic
compared to everything else out there at the time--of course, now your
laptop beats it all hollow, so nobody uses it anymore. (I think,
technically, it's still running.)

Then Intel bought the rights to the chip (a 21264?). I was hoping they
would use the engineers they acquired in the process to improve the f/p
performance of their own chips, which were far inferior to AMD's on
f/p.

But I haven't noticed any great improvement. Does anybody know what
happened? Did they just deep-six the thing? Is it so unimportant for
general computing they didn't care? Or did they adapt some of the
stuff to the Pentium, after all?

--Ron Bruck
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