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They had a whole room of Alpha workstations when I was at University in the late 90's, and I always preferred them to the Sparcstation machines in the main comp

They had a whole room of Alpha workstations when I was at University in the late 90's, and I always preferred them to the Sparcstation machines in the main computing room as they were quite a bit more responsive.

tinus_hn 5y ago
The Sparcstations ran pretty much okay on Linux though, even though in benchmarks Solaris seemed faster.
dekhn 5y ago
yup. I had my choice between my cheap linux PC, Sun workstations, SGIs, and Alpha. The alpha (in 1994) was by far the fastest machine of the bunch.