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Re:The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) by tptacek on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:04AM (#27639001)
You weren't missing much. The Alpha workstations most of us got to play with were dog slow. It was a funner architecture to read about than to use.
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Re:The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) by philjohn on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:47AM (#27640270)
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.
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Re:The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) by dekhn on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:04AM (#27642468)
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.
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Re:The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) by tinus_hn on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:09AM (#27640653)
The Sparcstations ran pretty much okay on Linux though, even though in benchmarks Solaris seemed faster.
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