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philjohn
on June 26, 2021
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The Death of Alpha on NT (1999)
They had a whole room of Alpha workstations when I was at University in the late 90's, and I always preferred them to the Sparcstation machines in the main computing room as they were quite a bit more responsive.
dekhn
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yup. I had my choice between my cheap linux PC, Sun workstations, SGIs, and Alpha. The alpha (in 1994) was by far the fastest machine of the bunch.
tinus_hn
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The Sparcstations ran pretty much okay on Linux though, even though in benchmarks Solaris seemed faster.
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