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Thomas,

As long as there are no hardware/software conflicts and you meet all system requirements then there should be no problems. Unfortunately at this time Windows and Mac are the only platforms that the programs work with.

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Brian O

Nemetschek North America

Technical Support Specialist

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It seems that Microsoft dropped support for the DEC Alpha processor before Windows 2000 was released. There are apparently some beta versions floating around, but if you're contemplating the purchase of a new, expensive machine, you'd probably do well to consider other options. There are a number of web sites out there that discuss Windows NT on Alpha; here's one of them:

http://www.alphant.com/

Caleb Strockbine

caleb@nemetschek.net

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Hi Caleb, Thank you for your msg. I've since learned that the brand new, loaded alpha, at a great price, may have a bad mother board. Since replacement mother boards are hard to come by, it is back to square one.

We will likely build from scratch... around 900MHz with a gig of fast ram a 133MHz bus and two 30 gig drives.

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