well, for some things. fx32 for the apps people wanted though was deficient. The NT3.1-era Alphas didn't have byte-level performance so things like Excel, Wor

well, for some things. fx32 for the apps people wanted though was deficient. The NT3.1-era Alphas didn't have byte-level performance so things like Excel, Word, etc. all ran terribly, as did Emacs and X. I supported a lab of Alphas running Ultrix and they were dogs for anything interactive and fantastic for anything that was a floating point application.