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wbl • yesterday at 1:03 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

If only the Alpha had hung on.

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icedchai • yesterday at 1:48 AM

I have an AlphaServer in my collection (DS10.) For a 25+ year old system, it still feels pretty snappy!

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shawn_w • yesterday at 6:44 AM

My college was a DEC shop; I learned programming and how to use unix in labs full of dumb X terminals connected to Alpha servers.

Still have a lot of nostalgia for the architecture.