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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: More Alpha AXP Performance Numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.173306.9663@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <Bxo927.ECF.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:33:06 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <Bxo927.ECF.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
- >
- > In article <Bxo6rI.C89.2@cs.cmu.edu> I wrote:
- > >Probably for the same reason one would buy an Amdahl - big IO, big
- > >memory, big caches
- >
- > Just to rub the point in: the DEC 10000 AXP has:
- >
- > - 6 processors
- > - 2 to 14 GB of ECC RAM
- > - up to 4 Futurebus+ IO busses
- > - up to 8 FDDI (100 Mb/s network) links
- > - up to 56 GB of in-cabinet disk
- > - up to 284 GB of directly attached disk
- > - up to 10,000 GB of in-cluster disk
- > - 800 MB/s "system interconnect"
- > - 400 MB/s I/O bandwidth
- > - support for HIPPI,CI,XMI,...
- > - Integrated Uninterruptible Power System
-
- yes, but...
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- ...can it run MS-DOS?
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- ;-)
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
-
- Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
- given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
- See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
- 80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
-