Our sister publication ClieNT Server News has been following the ins and outs of Digital Equipment Corp’s forthcoming Alpha AXP 64-bit RISC-based server, code named Sable, for months now and says that when the machine is announced in April, it will come in three versions, which are code-named Sable, SuperSable and DemiSable. Sable’s a maximum four-way symmetric multiprocessing machine, based on the 21064 chip with a Peripheral Component Interconnect bus, which DEC previewed at Comdex in a two-way configuration. Demi is a cost-optimised two-CPU configuration and Super is a more robust rack-mounted version of the original.
