What's more, there were 64 bit laptops in the mid 90s. Not particularly mobile ones, but if you could tolerate a 7 pound behemoth, you could get a 200 MHz 64 bi

What's more, there were 64 bit laptops in the mid 90s. Not particularly mobile ones, but if you could tolerate a 7 pound behemoth, you could get a 200 MHz 64 bit SPARC processor with 512MB of RAM in '96/97. The AlphaBook with an Alpha processor that was announced in '95 comes even earlier. https://www.vaxbarn.com/index.php/other-bits/555-tadpole-alphabook1 https://www.vaxbarn.com/index.php/other-bits/555-tadpole-alp... One thing that always strikes me about workstations and (especially?) these laptops is that, while the CPUs themselves weren't always much faster than competing Intel ones, they always seemed to have much better I/O options. The SCSI drives and controllers seemed to get much better throughput with lower CPU utilization, which pays dividends to how the overall system performs. A well designed workstation is more than just the sum of its parts. While these workstations/servers were arguably overpriced and it's not surprising they failed to the cheaper Wintel machines, they just seemed more well rounded...