lust ask Digital Equipment Corp., which had the same problem when it introduced its 64-bit
Alpha AXP in 1992.
By midsummer 1993, computer firms were preparing to mass-produce computers incorporating the first-generation Intel Pentium chip and Digital Equipment Corp.'s
Alpha AXP chip, which would launch performance levels to 200 MTOPS, or 16 times the existing licensing threshold.
To increase the market share of one of the company's hottest products, Digital announced in June that it would cut prices up to 31 percent on its Alpha microprocessors used in
Alpha AXP workstations.
There is also interest by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for the newest DEC product, the
Alpha AXP, a powerful 64 bit computer.
"We're betting the store on this," said a program director from Digital Equipment when asked how much the company is banking on its
Alpha AXP chip.
DEC took a major step in the rollout of its
Alpha AXP technology by introducing a set of systems and software designed to run complex applications.
Applications on M ran on a Hewlett-Packard UNIX box, an
Alpha AXP, an RS/6000 and two personal computers, Hoffman said.
The Discus, Adsert and Oracle database management software will run under OpenVMS on two DEC7000-610 AXP servers using Digital's new
Alpha AXP processor and supported by 30 1GB disk drives.
The key decisions are then discussed, to distinguish the
Alpha AXP architecture from others.