The DIGITAL Personal Workstations 433a and 500a for Windows NT are designed to provide price and performance leadership for low to midrange workstation users in the targeted MCAD, ECAD, GIS and Science and Research markets. They are among the next generation of Alpha XL products to be introduced to existing users of DIGITAL UNIX and the expanding market of Windows NT desktop computing.
The DIGITAL EV56 microprocessor accommodates demanding integer applications and runs 3D graphics options to significantly improve productivity for high end 2D and the spectrum of 3D floating point intensive, graphics applications.
DIGITAL Personal Workstations 433a and 500a have leveraged their commonality with the DIGITAL Personal Workstation 180I and 200i family to achieve unprecedented cost benefits.
The DIGITAL Personal Workstation for Windows NT system chassis supports
5 PCI slots (two PCI slots, three PCI/ISA combination slots) for industry standard options. All systems also include an on-board E-IDE disk controller, a dedicated floppy diskette drive, and 600 MB EIDE CD-ROM drive.
Storage supported in system enclosure includes up to three 5.25-inch half height removable media bays, one dedicated floppy disk drive bay, and two internal 3.5” hard disk drives bays. System ports include one bi-directional enhanced parallel port, two serial ports and external SCSI connectors.