I remember, way back in the 90s, working on NT 3.5/4 on some DEC Alphas in Sony Broadcast at Oxford, UK. The sysadmin there was a cool dude who I remember was amazed at how insane network speeds were getting. I think those guys at Oxford were responsible for a very nice recording studio mixer that Sony made.

I remember DEC Alphas absolutely stomped all over the x86 stuff that everyone else was using, but the flexibility and price of the commodity PCs was just too attractive. Pity, really.