>>And too bad the DEC Alpha wasn't popular enough. I saw it run some version of NT in 1995, and it was way ahead of what x86 could offer at the time. Too bad it didn't survive.
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>Never had my fingers on those - multitasking I can imagine being more sophisticated than 386 single core. Which areas impressed you?

The screen :). I said I only saw it. The girls at the show were doing their regular stuff - editing documents, inserting graphics etc, and that was waaaay faster and smoother than we saw on the Pentium boxes that year - and it was running the same Windows NT.