27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
11:43 a.m.
At 11:34 AM -0700 9/27/11, Ian King 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
In the mid-late 90's when the DEC PWS 433a's were still worth a lot,
a local PC reseller bought one on accident, and didn't know what to
do with it. I was able to get it and 256MB of RAM for far less than
I could get additional RAM for my Alphastation 500/333 that I bought
from Compaq (don't even want to think about what
that cost). I
switched it from ARC to SRM and put in a VMS compatible SCSI card.
I
used that system for about a decade before getting a XP1000.
Zane
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