[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 02 May 2012 03:21:19 -0700, Hans Vlems wrote:

> No, it's an EV5 manufactured in a process designed to produce the EV6
> generation.
> The EV56 is found in the Alpha Server 1200 and 4100 series, among
> others, and in the latter ran at its highest clockspeed of 600 MHz
> (IIRC).
> In 1998 you'd surely have been impressed (given what Intel was doing
> with the Pentium II and III at the time). Today it is of interest to
> hobbyists like me ;-) 

I bought a Pentium at the beginning of 1997 when 200 MHz was the latest 
offering (I was advised to go for a twin cpu 133 MHz configuration 
instead because that was substantially cheaper).

If I have interpreted the serial number correctly, my PWS 600au was made 
in week 9 of 1997, putting it in the same time frame as my Pentium.

Alpha was streets ahead of Intel at the time. It definitely wasn't cheap 
though.  I did find a price of 20,000 USD for an Alpha 600au in that era, 
but there wasn't a detailed listing of the configuration, so cannot say 
definitively how much more expensive than the Pentium of the day they 
were.

-- 
Paul Sture