Tyler August writes about a retrocomputing enthusiast who acquired a 1994 DEC AlphaServer 2100 at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest and recorded a tour of the machine. The server is a single-CPU model with a 64-bit Alpha RISC processor, capable of hosting up to 2GB of RAM, though this example only has 256 MB. The owner has gotten it powered on but is experiencing what appear to be power-related issues preventing it from booting an operating system like OpenVMS.
- Dated to the height of the RISC wars when multiple vendors were competing with their own high-end RISC architectures
- Alpha machines boot differently from typical x86 systems
- Comments note the machine could potentially run Windows NT 4.0, DEC OSF/1, or OpenVMS
- One commenter shared a story about running Exchange 5.5 on a similar Alpha machine under NT 4.0
- Dated to the height of the RISC wars when multiple vendors were competing with their own high-end RISC architectures
- Alpha machines boot differently from typical x86 systems
- Comments note the machine could potentially run Windows NT 4.0, DEC OSF/1, or OpenVMS
- One commenter shared a story about running Exchange 5.5 on a similar Alpha machine under NT 4.0
