Last of the DEC Alpha’s

A bit on computer history this time. Although this DS10 computer is badged Compaq it was a Digital Equipment Corporation design (DEC) using it Alpha processors. Compaq took over the DECs PC business in 1998 but it wasn’t long before HP picked up both. The Alpha processor held the speed record for a RISC processor at the time and was used in machines that could support DECs own operating system VMS, but also UNIX and Windows NT. Unlike Microsoft who clamed NT stood for 'New Technology', DEC circles claimed it was the 3 next letters in the alphabet from VMS becoming 'WNT' reflecting the design input from DEC.
There is a bonus end to the video on an unusual mouse used by DEC on earlier VAX machines.