DIGITAL AGAIN DOMINATES AIM HOT IRON AWARDS

11 awards are the most ever by a single vendor

SAN FRANCISCO -- February 14, 1996 -- Demonstrating the superior customer
value of its UNIX-based servers, workstations and PCs, Digital Equipment
Corporation has again taken top honors in the latest performance and
price/performance benchmarks conducted by AIM Technology, a leading
independent performance testing service.

In announcing results of its testing at UniForum '96 here today, AIM
Technology presented to Digital representatives 11 AIM 1996 Hot Iron
Awards, far more than any other vendor. No other vendor has ever collected
as many honors from AIM in a single round of Hot Iron Awards.

The Digital systems recognized by AIM include AlphaServer systems and
AlphaStation workstations based on Digital's industry-leading 64-bit
RISC-based Alpha microprocessors and 64-bit Digital UNIX operating system,
and Digital's premier Prioris Intel and UNIX based PC servers.

     Digital's Hot Iron Awards for 1996 are:

     o   Best Performer, General Workstation Mix, priced under
         $25,000:

              DEC 3000 Model 600

     o   Best Performer, General Workstation Mix, $25,000 and
         over:

              AlphaStation 600 5/300

     o   Best Price/Performance Throughput, File Server Mix,
         $25,000 to $49,000:

              Prioris ZX 5133MP/2

     o   Best Performer, Multi-user/Shared System, $150,000 and
         over:

              AlphaServer 8400 5/350

     o   Best Throughput Performer, File Server Mix, $150,000 and
         over:

              AlphaServer 2100 5/300

     o   Best Throughput Performer, Multi-user/Shared System,
         $50,000 to $149,000:

               AlphaServer 2100 5/250

     o   Best Price/Performance Throughput, Multi-user/Shared
         System, under $25,000:

               Prioris XL Server 5100DP

     o   Best Price/Performance Throughput, File Server Mix,
         $150,000 and over:

               AlphaServer 2100 5/300

     o   Best Throughput Performer, File Server Mix, under
         $25,000:

               Prioris LX 5120

     o   Best Price/Performance Throughput, File Server Mix, under
         $25,000:

              Prioris LX 5120

     o   Best Throughput Performer, File Server Mix, $25,000 to
         $49,000:

              Prioris ZX 5133MP/2

"Digital is indeed pleased that our systems continue to set the standard in
the independent and highly regarded AIM benchmarks," said Mike Gallup,
Digital vice president of worldwide systems marketing. "Once again, the
latest AIM results demonstrate that Alpha is the ideal UNIX platform for
high-performance workstation, departmental, and enterprise server
environments. Our customers, partners and channels continue to benefit
from Digital's leadership in providing the industry's most powerful,
expandable, affordable systems."

"This is the fourth consecutive time our Prioris PC servers have taken top
honors from AIM. Winning five Hot Iron Awards is a clear validation of our
product line's balanced system design, providing maximum server
performance at PC price points," said Duane Dickhut, vice president of
Digital's PC server product line. "Digital's commitment to world-class
performance, reliability and engineering excellence provides our customers
an unequaled value proposition that enables them to reap maximum return
for their technological investment."

Since 1981, AIM Technology has provided vendors and end users
comprehensive, unbiased performance testing to help users determine the
best fit between their application needs and available systems and
configurations.

AIM's service helps users reduce the costs of evaluating new systems and
provides valuable broad-spectrum performance visibility for vendors that
submit systems to be tested. AIM is an independent organization, as
opposed to a vendor consortium, which enables AIM to bring an expert eye
to performance measurement not restrained by objectives of consortium
members.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions, from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software
and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business
partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace.

For more information, visit the Digital World Wide Web site at:
www.digital.com
 
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