21.   Palmer attributed part of the decline to a saturation of the market with Alpha chips, which are built using a type of technology known as RISC.

22.   Some suggest Digital would do well to have others build the Alpha chip and the server computers in which it is sold.

23.   The Alpha chip was originally developed by Digital Equipment Corp., the Maynard, Mass. company acquired by Houston-based Compaq last year.

24.   The Alpha chip uses a special design called reduced instruction set computing, or RISC.

25.   The Intel settlement also validates the Alpha chip in a way that Maynard, Massachusetts-based Digital never could, analysts said.

26.   The move comes a month after Digital sued Intel, alleging the company designed its best-selling Pentium processor with technology that Digital developed for its flagship Alpha chip.

27.   The single greatest failure in the Palmer years, say analysts, was the Alpha chip, a semiconductor Digital created to distinguish itself from the competition.

28.   The settlement required Intel to manufacture Alpha chips for Digital at the plant.

29.   The six-year agreement also stipulated that Cirrus would buy Alpha chips from Digital.

30.   They are the first servers using an Alpha chip sold under the Compaq brand name.