alt Hacker NewsThe AXPpci 33 boards were pretty cheap at some point. I had one at the end of the 90s and I think it was 100-200 Dutch guilders.
The AXPpci 33 boards were pretty cheap at some point. I had one at the end of the 90s and I think it was 100-200 Dutch guilders.
Pretty cheap and pretty slow, relative to other Alphas. The various ATX-sized PC164s motherboards were the ones that should have sealed the deal for Digital, but intel had PPro at about the same time, with similar performance, less cost and probably most importantly ran all the software people already had and vendors didn't have to port to a new arch[1].
What might have been.
[1] Yes, yes...PPro sucks on 16-bit software. My personal experience was that was a red herring by the benchmark-jockies, because it wasn't that much slower, and virtually none of the many, many PPro machines I was responsible for ran DOS/Win3 software.