DIGITAL STEALS SPOTLIGHT IN AIM HOT IRON AWARDS

NEW YORK -- September 19, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation has once
again taken top honors in AIM Technology's 1995 Hot Iron Awards announced
here at UNIX Expo. Digital received six AIM performance and
price/performance awards for its Alpha and PC server and workstation
products.

The Digital systems recognized by AIM include workstations and servers
based on Digital's industry-leading 64-bit RISC-based Alpha
microprocessors, and Digital's premier Prioris personal computer servers.

Digital Hot Iron Awards for 1995 are:

     o  Best Workstation Peak Performance for systems under $25,000:
        AlphaStation 3000/600 workstation.

     o  Best General Workstation Peak Performance for systems above
        $25,000: AlphaStation 600 5/300 workstation.

     o  Best Shared System Multiuser Peak Performance for systems
        above $150,000: AlphaServer 8400 5/300 enterprise server.

     o  Best Throughput Performer, File Server Mix, for systems
        under $50,000: Prioris HX 5100 MP/2

     o  Best Price/Performance Throughput, Multiuser Shared System
        Mix, for systems under $50,000: Prioris XL 5100DP

     o  Best Price/Performance Throughput, File Server Mix, for
        systems under $50,000: Priors LX 590

"Since its inception three years ago, Digital's 64-bit Alpha technology has
achieved performance and price/performance dominance over the
competition," said Pauline Nist, Digital vice president, AlphaServer
Business Unit. "Once again, latest results of the AIM Hot Iron suite of
independent, unbiased benchmarks demonstrate that Alpha is the ideal UNIX
platform for workstation and enterprise server environments.

Our customers and partners are the real beneficiaries of our ongoing
success in providing the industry's most cost-effective systems."

"This third consecutive AIM Hot Iron Award for Digital's Prioris PC servers
is a clear validation of our product line's balanced system design that
provides 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 with an industry-leading value
proposition that enables them to reap a 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 allows 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.
 
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