#DEC Alpha-Workstation
05-Dec-93 22:15:53
Sb: #69623-#DEC Alpha-Workstation
Fm: ROBERT RITGER 75050,2255
To: Holger van Koll 100317,3103
Holger,
Sorry, I don't have an answer for you but I'm interested in the DEC Alpha AXP
workstations as they will be my company's future for CADD. Although there is a
flavor of Windows NT for the Alpha, 3DS has not yet been ported to NT. I would
like to know if this is 3DS's future as it will be AutoCad's. It seems that
Autodesk won't talk about future plans. I was at DEC's offices in NYC on
Thursday and I tried to weasel some info on software that is being ported to
the Alpha. Nobody that I spoke to knew of plans for 3ds. Is DEC OSF the name
of your operating system? What line of work are you in? What applications are
you running on your Alphas I am familiar with the motif interface but only
with VAX/VMS as the operating system.
Bob