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> The DEC TurboLaser 8200/8400 was a series of high end Windows NT compatible servers/workstations introduced in 1995. Not much is said as to what NT did to pu
by flatiron 5y ago
> The DEC TurboLaser 8200/8400 was a series of high end Windows NT compatible servers/workstations introduced in 1995.
Not much is said as to what NT did to push computing forward. It’s fascinating to see old tech designed to it.
- flomo 5y agoNot sure how many actual customers ran NT on these things. (big mssql shops?) But DEC had also successfully mode-switched into x86 servers and services. At one point, the commodity server sales leaders were Compaq, HP, DEC -- who all merged together.
- rwmj 5y agoWe ran NT on something quite similar to the article, hosting a large Lotus Notes(!) database which ran a Hotmail-like public email service. Unfortunately the system was rented. So when we rewrote the service and moved it off to Linux machines costing a tiny fraction of the price, the beefy 3 core Alpha was returned, rather than letting me install Linux on it to see how it could really perform :-/
- shrubble 5y agoNT didn't really; if anything it was designed to compromise the robust server and technical desktop market that unix providers like DEC, Sun, and SGI had. The constant drumbeat of 'is Unix dead ?' and similar FUD hurt their image and elevated Microsoft's. Yet over 25 years later, Windows Server is only marginally better than NT 3.51 and Linux/Unix philosophy is still dominant on internet facing servers.