DeskStation Technology
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DeskStation Technology was a manufacturer of RISC-based computer workstations intended to run Windows NT. DeskStation was based in Lenexa, Kansas.
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[edit] MIPS-based systems
Initially, DeskStation designed and produced MIPS-based workstations, such as the DeskStation Tyne v4633x, DeskStation rPC44 (Evolution E4400 RISC PC and Evolution R4400 RISC PC) and which conformed to the ARC computer specification (and implemented the associated firmware). Rather than adopt the Jazz reference design for its MIPS systems, DeskStation developed its own internal bus and chipset systems which offered greater performance compared to the more common Jazz machines. The resulting DeskStation machines began production in 1994, and had an initial price range from $2,990 for a basic system to $6,000 or more for machines with secondary cache and large memory configurations.
[edit] Alpha-based systems
Later, when Windows NT for the MIPS architecture became moribund, DeskStation switched to producing machines using commodity Wintel components (such as networking interface cards using the PCI bus) and based on the DEC Alpha processor line (these machines included the DeskStation Raptor series). In switching to the Alpha architecture, DeskStation adopted motherboard reference designs and chipsets from DEC, ceasing its own design efforts.
