Compaq Announces Aggressive Price Reductions on Low-End AlphaServers; Tru64 UNIX & Linux-ready Systems Reduced By Up to 20 Percent.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 1999-- Today Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) makes AlphaServer systems even more competitive by passing on cost savings from volume manufacturing for the recently announced AlphaServer DS20. List prices for the Tru64 UNIX-based AlphaServer DS20 systems have been reduced by $2,000, and prices for the Linux-ready systems were reduced by 20 percent. With today's announcement, the Compaq AlphaServer DS20 is now more accessible and affordable to a wider range of customers. Rated the fastest dual-processor system available -- at 27.7 SPECint95 - the AlphaServer DS20 offers unprecedented performance at an entry-level price, in high performance technical applications and Internet web servers, for example. This is also the same high-performance dual-processor system Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. , architect of the Linux kernel The nucleus of the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds, was integrated with software from the GNU Project and other sources to create the actual Linux operating system. See Linux, GNU/Linux and kernel. , uses for his own recompiles. For more information on the AlphaServer DS20, visit: http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/ds20/ds20.html Running up to two Alpha 500MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. 21264 processors, the Linux-ready configurations are now available starting under $12,000 (price from U.S. resellers). The entry price for the AlphaServer DS20 with 128MB of memory and 4GB disk is now $17,900 (U.S. list price with Tru64 UNIX). Company Background: Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of computer systems. For more corporate information, see: http://www.compaq.com/. Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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