I remember some PC vendors selling Alpha based workstations running NT in the mid- to late 1990s. I don't know how well they performed, but the price put them out of my range by such a wide margin I did not really care. I'd just look at the brochure and drool a little, even though in retrospect, I could not really have done anything with one of these.
> I remember some PC vendors selling Alpha based workstations running NT in the mid- to late 1990s.
AGFA sold Alphas (DEC-branded) running NT4.1 in the mid-1990s along with their Apogee film imaging equipment to run their Apogee RIP software (which may have been G4-TIFF based at the time). I worked at a commercial printer as a prepress operator in 1996, and the Alpha/NT AGFA RIP just stayed on until 1998, at least that's when I moved on. The Mac workstations saw the RIP as an ordinary printer. There was never any reason to touch the RIP, it just did its thing and shot to the imagesetter. What I saw later was RAMpage equipment, an AGFA competitor, and which was 100% PDF, that separated the RIP from the shooter into two machines, both RAMpage-branded PCs.
10 (Branded "Windows 10", "Server 2016", "Server 2019", "Server 2022"); 10 numbered build releases issued, then 4 datecoded ones; 14 in all.
11 (Branded "Windows 11"); 2 datecoded releases so far.
In other words, 7 versions of NT with a minor-version point-release so far, and in total 16 service packs for those point-releases which did not change the major or minor version number.
At the time I was a Windows user who used his PC mainly for video games. Other than Minesweeper and Solitaire, the gaming situation on Windows for Alpha was probably not great.
