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Re: Finding Alpha workstations

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In article <9a9c28b0-b2c2-47cd-bd86-fa2fa25ea824@14g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, Lennert <signup-usenet@vanalboom.org> writes:
> 
> "Decent" as in, reasonably fast enough to find a desktop use for. I
> have an SGI O2 (300MHz MIPS) which is finding it hard to still
> qualify, but the HP C8000 (quad 1.1GHz HPPA) is plenty for most things
> I need to do. I'd like at least to be able to run Tru64 with X11 or
> VMS with DECWindows and have some memory left for applications, so I
> (kind of arbitrarily) set my mind on an EV6 or better machine which
> isn't starved for ram.

   My DS10 handles those needs just fine.  It doesn't have a graphics
   card, so I use my EV4 Alpha as the display.  I can tell that the EV4
   isn't a great choice for web browsing, but it met most of my other
   needs before I got the DS10.

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Finding Alpha workstations Lennert <signup-usenet@vanalboom.org> - 2011-05-19 00:32 -0700
  Re: Finding Alpha workstations Crabs <tomc@frontieranalytical.com> - 2011-05-19 08:41 -0700
  Re: Finding Alpha workstations koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-19 12:14 -0500
  Re: Finding Alpha workstations helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-05-19 17:28 +0000
    Re: Finding Alpha workstations Lennert <signup-usenet@vanalboom.org> - 2011-05-20 00:57 -0700
      Re: Finding Alpha workstations Kari Uusimäki <uusimaki@exdecWITHOUTTHISfinland.org> - 2011-05-20 11:18 +0300
      Re: Finding Alpha workstations koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-20 08:07 -0500
  Re: Finding Alpha workstations Kari Uusimäki <uusimaki@exdecWITHOUTTHISfinland.org> - 2011-05-19 23:19 +0300
  Re: Finding Alpha workstations Hans Bachner <Hans@Bachner.priv.at> - 2011-05-19 23:44 +0000
    Re: Finding Alpha workstations Lennert <signup-usenet@vanalboom.org> - 2011-05-20 00:58 -0700

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