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The Multia, later re-branded the Universal Desktop Box, is a line of computer workstations produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1990s. The line is notable in that units were offered with either an Alpha AXP or Intel Pentium processor as the CPU, and most hardware other than the backplane and CPU were interchangeable. Both the Alpha AXP and Intel Pentium versions were intended to run Windows NT.

The Multia included a compact case which left little room for expansion cards; also, thermal air flow was restricted, which caused premature hardware failure because of overheating.

The Alpha AXP line of Multias included either an Alpha AXP 21066A microprocessor running at either 166 MHz or 233 MHz, and came standard with 32 MB of RAM. Because the 21066A was a budget version of the Alpha 21064 processor, it had a slower bus and performance was roughly equivalent to a Pentium running at 60 MHz; furthermore, the standard 32 MB of RAM was a severe restriction on the performance of these workstations. The Alpha AXP Multias came with the TGA graphics adapter.

In 1996, Digital began offering the Multia without Windows NT and renamed the line the "Universal Desktop Box" (nicknamed "UDB"). Prices were quite low, such that for the first time many enthusiasts and hobbyists could afford an Alpha AXP-based computer. The Multia or UDB can run Windows NT for Alpha through version 4.0 service pack 6 (although Windows 2000 was never officially released for the Alpha platform, Windows 2000 Beta was released and in fact runs on the Multia), and both Linux and NetBSD are available for the Multia. Additionally, both Digital UNIX and OpenVMS can be configured to run on the Multia, although initially such operating systems were disabled from running on the budget Multia line.

The Multia came configured with the ARC firmware console for running Windows NT.

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