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#1 Brito

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Posted 19 March 2018 - 08:32 PM

Good story: https://blog.pizzabo...ing-the-multia/

 

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The Multia feels to me like Digital’s take on a high-end “legacy-free” (at introduction in late 1994) desktop. Its spec sheet includes features unheard of in its contemporaries:

  • a 64-bit RISC processor
  • ECC memory
  • Ethernet networking
  • SCSI2 hard drive
  • high-resolution (1280x1024) monitor support
  • PCMCIA expansion slots

A RISC processor, powerful networking, and PCMCIA slots nearly sounds like a description of a Network Computer, but the Multia pre-dates the NC by more than a year. It was also ahead of its time in terms of its original OS: the fully 32-bit Windows NT 3.5. There wouldn’t be a 32-bit capable consumer Windows for another year (Windows 95 came out in late 1995).

 

 


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Posted 19 March 2018 - 08:54 PM

It was also ahead of its time in terms of its original OS: the fully 32-bit Windows NT 3.5. There wouldn’t be a 32-bit capable consumer Windows for another year (Windows 95 came out in late 1995).

Maybe  a consumer Windows OS, I had (like the rest of the world of course) NT 3.5 in late 1994/early 1995 on a i386 "plain" PC:

https://en.wikipedia.../Windows_NT_3.5

 

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Posted 20 March 2018 - 10:21 AM

In 1996 it really seemed Windows 95 was way ahead of anything else. I had no idea that a Windows 3.5 existed. Even more surprising was to learn that this machine was already at 166Mhz inside a 64bit CPU speed whereas my own computer was still stuck on 4,77Mhz inside a 16bit CPU.

 

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Posted 20 March 2018 - 11:04 AM

In 1996 it really seemed Windows 95 was way ahead of anything else. I had no idea that a Windows 3.5 existed. Even more surprising was to learn that this machine was already at 166Mhz inside a 64bit CPU speed whereas my own computer was still stuck on 4,77Mhz inside a 16bit CPU.

 

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Well I had already Windows NT 3.1 at the time in the office.

 

In those years a few months made a BIG difference, but I still can remember (curiously I was in Portugal at the time) the blueish graphical screens of the Windows 95 preview/beta install (that was 1994, possibly a 122 or 189 build) and the awe it inspired.

 

PC processors were however at the time 486's and topped - if I recall correctly - at 100 Mhz.

 

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