Digital is also introducing a new generation of work stations and servers based on its Alpha chip.

And computers employing the Alpha chip are not due out until late this year or early in 1993.

The first few generations of the Alpha chips were some of the most innovative of their time.

Digital introduced its Alpha chip last year and has already been using it in a line of work stations.

The first computers using the Alpha chips are scheduled to be out by the end of the year.

The performance of the Alpha chip is getting rave reviews.

Digital engineers say the Alpha chip can process as many as 400 million instructions a second.

Digital will offer other computer makers limited quantities of the Alpha chip immediately and higher volumes in July.

Meanwhile, the company is bragging that it's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486.

Alpha chips, which are far faster than most other microprocessors in use, will be at the heart of Digital's next-generation machines.