Digital Equipment Corp is promising high-end personal computers based on its Alpha RISC early next year – as soon as Microsoft Corp ships the Windows NT operating system. The company says that the machine, with six EISA slots and basic personal computer architecture, but 128Mb to 256Mb of main memory, will be priced to compete with high-end 80486 and P5 machines – but the latter can be expected to be very expensive anyway judging by the specification of the chip (CI No 1,966). Despite being dubbed a personal computer, the machine is expected to be used primarily as a server for Windows NT, getting DEC into the Windows 3.1 base.
