Powered by a 266- or 300-MHz Alpha 21164 RISC microprocessor, the AlphaStation 600 Models 5/266 and 5/300 can process more than 1 billion instructions per second. The Model 5/266 includes 32 MB of ECC RAM; 2 MB of cache; a 1-GB hard drive; a quad-speed CD-ROM drive; a 3-1/2-inch floppy drive; a 17-inch color monitor; ZLXp-E1 graphics; an audio card; a headset; a microphone; a keyboard mouse; and Windows NT, Digital Unix, or OpenVMS ($29,300 to $31,800). The AlphaStation Model 600 5/300 ($44,995) adds 64 MB of ECC RAM, 4 MB of cache, and a 21-inch monitor to the Model 5/266's configuration. Multimedia enhancements include programming interfaces, video-capture boards, speech-recognition software, and collaborative computing software.
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