On 11 Feb 2013, at 16:19, "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> wrote: -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 16:11 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] NT 4 on AlphaServer es40 On 02/11/2013 04:07 PM, Steve Davidson wrote: NT 4.0 and all service packs were supported on Alpha. NT 5.0 (aka Windows 2000) beta worked as well until Compaq pulled the plug. Frightening. As for speed... The Alpha's kicked series ASS running NT. One of my Jensen's still runs V4.0 and it cooks right along! I reloaded several Jensens with Digital UNIX at customer sites. They ran rings around their previous NT installs on the same hardware. It wasn't 4.0, though; I seem to recall it was 3.something. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA NT 3.x was a whole different beast the NT 4.0. Video was a big change - it moved into system space (and so did the early crashes :-)), but performance improved. I used to run V3.5 with SQL and it booked! V4.0 I used for file, print, and email (Exchange). Often I would run most of the BackOffice Suite (except the SNA component) and that included SMS which was a resource hog. NT 4.0 workstation was quite fast - problem was that few companies ported their software to the Alpha platform so over time people had fewer and fewer reasons to use it. Which version of Exchange? NT 4.0 Workstation is still fast! It's much less bloated than modern windows! I still use it and Office 97. Even Dave Cutler used the Alpha to do development on until they finally withdrew support that is That makes perfect sense. I am not surprised. -Steve