Indeed, by 1994, Olivetti expects to be marketing Alpha systems built to its own design.
The company was so impressed with Torvalds that it decided to give him an Alpha system so that he could work on the port himself.
V8.3 is also available for Alpha systems.
Current implementations run on Alpha systems from HP, and other vendors.
Prices of Digital's new Alpha systems will start at $15,000, analysts said.
This was the first Alpha system to support Windows NT.
Sometime after, an undisclosed event or chain of events lead the supercomputers to send an invasion to the Alpha 1 system.
Nutanix shipped their Alpha system to their first two customers in April 2011.
An announcement of the first indigenous Alpha systems is expected around the end of the summer, following benchmarks which will be released in August.
DEC says some 300 Alpha systems are currently out on test in the field.