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In article <2A856D7E.16950@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, fredv@hydra.acs.uci.edu
(Fred Velijanian) wrote:
> 
> I'd like to hear from anyone who attended Siggraph 1992 a few weeks
> ago, especially what DEC had to show in their booth? I heard they
> were supposed to show ALPHA systems. If so which graphics boards
> were present and what applications were running?  Any details on
> DEC's PEX demos and interoperability with other vendors would be 
> appreciated too.

Supposedly there were three Alpha workstations there; I think they were 150
MHz but I'm not certain.

I only saw one of them.  It was making mandelbrot pictures, "racing" with
three other architectures on the same screen.  The closest competitor was
an HP 730, which seemed to be generating pictures at about half the speed.

Since HP 730's have been available for about a year and Alpha workstations
won't be available for a few months, DEC appears to have caught up with HP
but not really surpassed them (assuming HP isn't standing still).