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I grew up using a Intel 486-powered DEC workstation. DEC's legendary machines were behind them by that point, but I still have plenty of nostalgia for that com

by ctkrohn 16y ago

I grew up using a Intel 486-powered DEC workstation. DEC's legendary machines were behind them by that point, but I still have plenty of nostalgia for that computer. 16MB of RAM was a lot of memory in 1993.

dfghjkfgh 16y ago
Alpha workstations were pretty awesome just then - although we used to buy the cheap ones with NT and install linux.
- ctkrohn 16y ago
  Ah yes, forgot about the Alpha port of NT. It's a little-known fact that Windows NT ran on non-Intel architectures: besides the Alpha version, there were MIPS and PowerPC ports.
  - dfghjkfgh 16y ago
    Due to some sort of internal Dec sales war you could buy the same hardware running VMS($$$$),Ultrix($$$),or NT($) - we bought NT and wiped the machines then installed Linux. They gave you Sparc ultra performance for 1/2 the price.
    - arethuza 16y ago
      The Alphas we had (lovely boxes - especially the mid range "server" we had) were running OSF/1 rather than Ultrix - was that yet another option?
      - rbanffy 16y ago
        OSF/1 morphed into Digital Unix and then into Tru64. I have seen Alpha boxes running NT, Linux and OpenVMS.