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From: Fred Kleinsorge <kleinsorge@star.enet.dec_nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Digital response to PC VMS
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 12:58:58 -0400
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Haimo G. Zobernig wrote:
>
 
  [snip]

> 
> And for another stealth-marketing product, have a look at the
> "DIGITAL Ultimate Workstation 533a2" ( and 533au2 ), a dual CPU SMP
> workstation
> "unveiled" Dec. 11, '97 in
> http://www.digital.com/hpc/news/news_uws_533.html
> Comes in NT and DU versions, with 2 533 MHz Alpha 21164 CPUs, 4MB cache,
> 512 MB memory ( up to 2GB ), 5 PCI slots, 1 PCI/ISA slot, 4.3 GB HD
> etc...
> 
> Order No.s SN-PBF5W-3A  ( W/NT )
>            SN-PBF5W-VA  ( DU 4.0x )
> 
> No mention of VMS of course, and no price given for the little monster.
> Back in Dec. I extracted a postscript file from the SOC which seemed to
> show that the pedestal box has actually 2 motherboards in it, but I
> can't find it back right now.
>


  OpenVMS customers that want this same functionality can order the
  AlphaServer 1200.


> Wonder just how well it does do SMP?


  It screams.


-- 
Frederick G. Kleinsorge       | Standard disclaimer:  All opinions
OpenVMS Engineering           | expressed are mine, and not those of my
Digital Equipment Corporation | employer, or any one else with half a
kleinsorge@star.enet.dec.com  | clue.  No refunds on sale items.