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DEC made excellent hardware. I'm still using a dual processor AlphaServer DS25 full time, in colo, for production hosting and building NetBSD pkgsrc packages:

https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/13559959903988817...

It has the updated 21264C-6 (EV68CB) processors, which are still very speedy, all things considered.





A 1U Amiga 1200 serving up web pages. Can’t be too many of them.


I loved DEC PCs (4xx series). They were rock solid. They did make one crazy machine in the DEC Rainbow 100. It was beyond weird, but I guess solid.


You and me both. Work got one as a POC and they kinda forgot about it and it landed under my desk...I was then able to wrangle a Pentium upgrade kit for it. It was a beast and incredibly well built.


They also had an excellent field technical staff. After Compaq purchased them it was always a roll of the dice as to whether you were going to get an excellent former DEC technician or an awful Compaq technician. Unfortunately the former DEC technicians quickly disappeared.


Assuming that's you: Could you possibly explain

> What I think is the only 1U VAX in the world

? Is that a custom job where you stuffed the guts in a smaller case?


The DEC Alpha running OSF was by far my favorite Unix system at the time.




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