The second line of DECstations began with the DECstation 2100 and 3100, released in 1989, which were the first commercially available RISC-based machines built by DEC. At the time DEC was mostly known for their CISC systems including the successful PDP and VAX lines. The DECstation 3100 was claimed to be the world's fastest UNIX workstation at the time. When it was introduced it was about three times as fast as the VAXstation 3100 which was introduced at about the same time. In contrast to the VAX (and the later DEC Alpha architecture), no v ...

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DECstation, DECstation - First DECstation line, DECstation - Second DECstation line, DECstation - Models

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