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Things I remember about the DEC Alpha machines that were used at University when I was a student: They were expensive. We paid for CPU seconds. Not conducive t
by mr_toad 7y ago
Things I remember about the DEC Alpha machines that were used at University when I was a student:
They were expensive. We paid for CPU seconds. Not conducive to experimentation .
The OS sucked. (From an end-user perspective, that is). It was both verbose and unfriendly. At least Unix was succinct.
Most of the people using the system were engineers, mathematicians, and comp-sci students, who all preferred either Unix or Windows.
- mepian 7y agoThe Alpha was running both Unix (Digital UNIX aka OSF/1 AXP aka Tru64 UNIX) and Windows up until 2000 RC1. Even Linux was officially supported in the last years.
- tssva 7y agoBased upon the original comment I'm guessing the system he used was running OpenVMS. Many universities replaced their previous VAX systems running VMS with Alpha servers running OpenVMS.