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lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley) writes:

>In article <14336@borg.cs.unc.edu> lateiner@cs.unc.edu (Joshua Lateiner)
>writes: 

>>based workstations.  However, due to our budget, the best machine we
>>can consider is a DEC PC 450st.  It supports daughter-card upgrades
>>for the ?P5 (aka Intel 586) chip, which is a 64 bit chip, like Alpha.

>>Thus my question is, will DEC make available a similar upgrade card 
>>for the 450st that will enable me to plug in an Alpha chip?  If DEC
>>is not planning such an upgrade, why aren't they?  With NT, the fact
>>that it is not Intel compatible becomes meaningless, and I am sure I
>>am not alone in desiring the option.  If DEC can sell Alpha-Ready Vax
>>and Mips based workstations, why not sell Alpha-Ready Intel-based 
>>workstations?

>Presumably for the same reason that Formula 1 racing engines are not
>available as upgrades for small hatchback family cars ;-)

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>>	Joshua Lateiner

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I am the one who did the AIMIII suite on the 450st/400xP.... I commonly
run with 96 meg of 80ns (or 70ns) RAM and have run with more than 10 gig
of storage. If you read some specs you will find that this machine is not
anymore limited than DECs RISC machines.

Charlie
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