[HECnet] NT 4 on AlphaServer es40

[Cory Smelosky]

On 11 Feb 2013, at 16:14, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 02/11/2013 04:11 PM, Steve Davidson wrote:
The only reason it failed in the market place was what Compaq did/didn't
do with/for it.   CAD/CAM on the first Alphas was amazing.   Intel had
nothing that could keep up with it.   Compaq did not know how to market
it and it fell into the abyss.   Shame too - DEC knew how to deal with
interrupts - something that Intel still does not know how to deal with.

The people I moved off of it did so due to the almost complete lack of
software, and the instability.   Their application targets were network
services. (I was with a networking company at the time)

NT 3.x was horrendously unstable iirc.   I don't think the TCP/IP stack was very robust or refined in that era either.
Lack of software was however a major issue. :(


                            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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