Digital Equipment Corp is to ship 1,000 AXPpci33 Alpha motherboards to Moscow-based Intelectronika by the end of March. The $2.5m deal is part of DEC’s strategy to cultivate indirect distribution channels for 64-bit computing in Eastern Europe and Inelectronika’s attempt to get into the market for RISC workstations and servers running Unix and Windows NT. The original shipment will run DEC’s OSF/1 Unix, with the motherboards embedded into what Intelectronika is calling its X-inel line. Intelectronika says the Russian government and private sector have already bought 100 machines. Inquiries have already arrived from Italy and the US, the company says. DEC says it expects to ship 10,000 of the engines to Intelectronika in the next couple of years.
