> Early Alphastations were VME based machines. No, they most emphatically were not. The early 3000 series, like the MIPS based DECstation and VAX based VAXst

> Early Alphastations were VME based machines. No, they most emphatically were not. The early 3000 series, like the MIPS based DECstation and VAX based VAXstation, were based on Turbochannel[1], which was DEC's primary bus technology at the time. Later Alphas used PCI as their primary bus. There were Tubochannel to VME adapters, and PCI to VME adapters, but VME was never a primary bus used in alpha. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TURBOchannel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TURBOchannel