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The
AlphaNT Source |
Alpha and NT JumpStation
Table of Contents
This page contains links to web sites and pages having to do with Digital's Alpha microprocessor, and Microsoft's operating system, Windows NT. The information is divided into the following categories:
Alpha
The following links are related specifically to Alpha microprocessors, motherboards, and systems.
- Alpha code names and other trivia
- Alpha product sheets, documentation, and more from Digital Semiconductor
- AlphaCentral, another site devoted to seeing "the future PC equipped with Alpha Chips"!
- AlphaPowered Website
- Alpha Systems Firmware Updates
- Digital Semiconductor
- Golden Eggs, Digital workstation and server diagrams
- Motherboard firmware and drivers
- Multia information, both NT and Linux
- Multia Reference from Starship Computer
- Multia settings and technical information
- Multia (UDB) troubleshooting procedures and more
- OEM InfoCenter, board level information on Alpha systems
- Samsung Semiconductor
- Systems and Options Catalog, Digital workstation and server specific configuration details
Spend enough time in the Alpha community, and you'll hear about Mustangs, Sables, and Mavericks. American Ford cars? No, code names. Check out the Trivia Page for a cross-reference table that should help you understand what folks are talking about. I'll be adding more trivia, so if you've got any tidbits you know, drop me a note!
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Windows NT and Alpha
These links point to pages and sites related to the combination of the Alpha Microprocessor running Windows NT.
- Alpha Applications Catalog
- Alpha NT Digital Media Creation Tools
- Alpha NT firmware and drivers
- Alpha NT tuning white paper
- BootStrap Systems, software reseller
- Digital's ASAP Website, the Association of Software & Application Partners, including porting information, news, and lots of support areas.
- Digital's Enterprise Windows InfoCenter
- Digital's FX!32, the software layer for NT that allows the Alpha to run 32 bit x86 applications
- Digital's Performance Collection of apparel, business items, sporting items, and more -- like this "64 bit UNIX, Windows NT, and Internet" t-shirt.
- Digital Semiconductor: Alpha Developer's Area including links to other sites, code examples, and especially free performance/tuning tools
- The Microsoft Digital Alliance for Enterprise Computing
- Microsoft SQL Server for Windows NT Configuration & Tuning for Digital Alpha Systems
- Microsoft's Windows NT Internet Resources
- NTWare.com, "your software center for the Windows NT Operating System"
- Systems Internals dedicated Alpha NT freeware utilities
- The NT-Alpha Solution Center
- UNIX, OpenVMS, and x86 to Alpha NT porting guides
- Walnut Creek CD-ROM Alpha NT site
- Windows NT Software for Alpha-based Systems
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Windows NT
These general NT links, while not specific to Alpha systems, contain information that will be pertinent to NT users regardless of the platform they are running on.
- Digital's Other Windows NT Resources on the Internet
- Windows NT Magazine
- Enterprise NT Magazine
- Beverly Hills Software
- NT: CPU Speed without Heroics, an excellent whitepaper on porting the SPEC benchmarks to NT
- Windows NT Workstation, from Microsoft
- Windows NT Server, from Microsoft
- European Microsoft Windows Academic Consortium
- Windows Hardware Quality Labs, including the NT Hardware Compatibility List
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Miscellaneous
More links to general computing issues that are important to high-end workstation users.
- Anti-Intel Association -- a site dedicated to alternatives to mediocre technology
- Intel Secrets web site -- what Intel doesn't want you to know
- The Linux/Alpha Home Page -- for those who want to go the free-route
- AlphaLinux.org
- The OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
- The CPU InfoCenter
- SPEC WWW Site. The official website
- John DiMarco's SPEC tables, a private collection in one file
Last revised Friday, 30 June 2000 |
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