There’s an Ultra Low Cost or ULC Alpha chip in the works at Digital Equipment Corp which the company plans to target for use in X Window terminals, palmtop computers and embedded applications, according to the Terry Shannon on DEC newsletter that arrived on our desk on Christmas Eve. Shannon reckons that it is a […]
There’s an Ultra Low Cost or ULC Alpha chip in the works at Digital Equipment Corp which the company plans to target for use in X Window terminals, palmtop computers and embedded applications, according to the Terry Shannon on DEC newsletter that arrived on our desk on Christmas Eve. Shannon reckons that it is a 3W AXP implementation intended to run at 58.8MHz and deliver 40 SpecMarks performance. He also claims that DEC and an unidentified partner are busy squeezing it into one of these new-fangled personal digital assistants. He describes the planned product as a mainframe-compatible palmtop and hand-warmer in one. He thinks the ULC chip will also find a home inside the projected DECwindows Terminal III, DEC’s first RISC-based X Window terminal. With the chip stripped of floating point processor, large caches and TurboChannel and EISA controller support, he says the Terminal III could be the first AXP system to sell for under $2,000.
