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Digital Equipment Corp.'s 200 Server, known as Sable, is the first in a family of RISC-based symmetric multiprocessing servers that use between one and four 90-MHz Alpha AXP processors and deliver high price/performance.
The 2100 is quickly becoming Digital's most important system. At a time when VAX sales are slow and the company needs to remake itself, the 2100 has shipped between 3,000 and 3,500 units since its introduction in April--three times its forecasted amount, according to analysts [CW, Aug. 15].
Evaluators included a printing company, a software simulator, a government agency and an insurance provider.
The survey method was developed with the assistance of Howard Rubin and Associates and Technology Investment Strategies Corp.
CRASH RECOVERY
None of the users had yet experienced a crash and said they could not effectively comment on recovery. But they said they were initially pleased by the reliability of the 2100 compared with the older Alpha-based systems.
Software simulator: "Its improved reliability is...