Digital Equipment Corp today releases its new entry level 64-bit AlphaStation 200 4/100 which replaces the 3000/300LX and is being aimed at the graphics and finance markets. It supports the DEC OSF/1 Unix, Windows NT and OpenVMS operating systems and incorporates Peripheral Component Interconnect bus. It has a 100MHz processor with 8Kb each of instruction and data cache on chip and 512Kb secondary cache. Performance is estimated at 74 SPECint92 and 95 SPECfp92 and it costs around ú4,500 for a system with 1.05Gb disk, 32Mb memory and the OSF/1 or OpenVMS operating system. DEC is pitching the workstation against the Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstation 570 and the Silicon Graphics Inc Indy PC, and claiming twice the performance; against the IBM Corp PowerPC-based RS/6000 40P, it claims a 25% speed advantage. DEC also announced the AlphaServer 400 4/166 entry level 64-bit server priced from ú8,000 and aimed at those needing a local network server. It supports 192Mb RAM and 8.4Gb of storage, 8Kb each of instruction and data cache and 512Kb secondary cache per processor, providing an estimated 100 transactions per second. The performance is rated at 107 SPECint92 and 134SPECpt92.
