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• Compaq to Consolidate Alpha Systems Manufacturing, Cut Staff

  - 1999-05-18

  As part of its ongoing and difficult digestion of Digital Equipment Corp, Compaq Computer Corp announced Monday that it is consolidating the North American manufacturing operations for high-end Alpha processor-based systems. The company will cease production of the systems at its Salem, New Hampshire facility and...

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• Compaq Maps The Future Of Its Dec And Tandem Servers

  - 1998-08-20

  Compaq Computer Corp officials are now admitting that the MIPS- based servers of its Tandem Computers Inc subsidiary will be phased out in favor of Intel or Alpha-based systems. Tandem's current MIPS-based Integrity FT systems running its NonStop Unix implementation will have made the migration by 2001, said the company....

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• Compaq Maps The Future Of Its Dec And Tandem Servers

  - 1998-08-20

  Compaq Computer Corp officials are now admitting that the MIPS- based servers of its Tandem Computers Inc subsidiary will be phased out in favor of Intel or Alpha-based systems. Tandem's current MIPS-based Integrity FT systems running its NonStop Unix implementation will have made the migration by...

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• Dec Upgrades Intel-To-Alpha Binary Translation

  - 1998-04-06

  Digital Equipment Corp has a new version of its FX!32 binary translation software that aims to make any Intel x86 application run on its own Alpha RISC-based systems without porting. The new version, 1.3, is said to boost overall application performance on Alpha systems by 20%, and in some cases,...

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• Hollywood Used Alpha Systems For Titanic, But Not From Dec

  - 1998-02-10

  Digital Equipment Corp is boasting that Hollywood special effects studio Digital Domain Inc used Alpha-based computer systems for "virtually every frame" of the blockbuster film Titantic, pitching the move as a significant win against Silicon Graphics Inc. But what DEC doesn't say is that the Venice, California-...

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• MSC/NASTRAN Extended to Digital's High-Performance Alpha NT Workstations and Servers

  - 1997-09-02

  LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 2, 1997--The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. MSC (NYSE:MNS) Tuesday announced the availability of MSC/NASTRAN Version 70 on Digital Equipment Corp.'s Alpha NT high-performance workstations and servers. This release brings together the most comprehensive finite element analysis FEA program, MSC/NASTRAN, with Alpha microprocessor-based Windows NT from DIGITAL....

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• New SpatialWare server technology from MapInfo available for Digital Equipment's UNIX Alpha systems

  - 1996-11-05

  TROY, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 5, 1996-- MapInfo Corporation (NASDAQ: MAPS), the pioneer and market leader in business mapping solutions, today announced that its new SpatialWaretm server technology will support Digital UNIX, running on Digital's high-performance AlphaServertm family of 64-bit RISC systems for exceptionally fast servicing of very large databases. ...

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• Digital, VLSI reach accord on Alpha MPU

  - 1996-09-16

  Maynard, Mass.--Banking on the possibility that Windows NT compatibility and a lower price point will fuel a demand for the Alpha microprocessor, VLSI Technology is entering into an agreement with Digital Equipment Corp. for the design and manufacture of system logic chips for use with future Alpha models.Electronic News has...

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• ESRI's ARC/INFO GIS Software to Support Microsoft Windows NT on Alpha Systems

  - 1996-04-29

  REDLANDS, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 29, 1996--Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. ESRI, Monday announced support for its ARC/INFO GIS software on Digital's Alpha Systems for the Microsoftr Windows NTr environment.Together with Digital and Microsoft, ESRI will provide, for the first time, ARC/INFO for Windows NT on a RISC platform.GIS users will be...

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• New Alpha systems are "Internet onramps". (DEC Internet AlphaServers)

  - 1995-02-01

  DEC is offering three Internet AlphaServers that combine 64-bit RISC performance with pre-installed Internet software to provide a turnkey Internet solution. Electronic Locker system administration software utilizes a Mosaic interface to make the systems easy to use. The Internet AlphaServer 1000 provides 64MB of RAM, expandable to 512MB, and a...

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