27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
1:31 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
I remember working with NT4 on all of those when I was first at Microsoft,
back in the mid-late '90s. Developers loooooved the Alpha machines: their
local builds ran way faster than on those Pentium pigs. Having a DEC UWS
was a bigger perk than having a window office. -- Ian
A guy I went to college with went out to work at DEC in Boston testing high
end Alpha workstations and video cards. He sent screenshots of Quake 2
running on NT Alpha with ridiculously high end video cards and, at the time,
insane resolutions (SXGA I believe) They'd run the Q2 benchmark for days on
end to stress-test the cards. IIRC he claimed Q2 was an ideal burn-in tool,
as few professional apps used nearly every OpenGL feature simultaneously,
most were optimized to use a few specific calls at once.
We were all jealous, putzing along with our pathetic Windows 98 machines
running RAGE graphics...