home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cc.curtin.edu.au!zrepachol
- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Alpha speed?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.205638.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:56:38 GMT
- References: <RICHARD.92Nov12152902@chemeng.stanford.edu> <1992Nov12.185419.15565@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Nov13.025648.8881@crl.dec.com>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- Lines: 14
-
- In article <1992Nov13.025648.8881@crl.dec.com>, jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
- > The current 21064 Alpha chip built in the current fab process will run at up to
- > 200MHZ (and we've never said anything else, to my knowledge).
- >
- ...
- > So a 150MHZ Alpha system can execute up to 300 million instructions/second.
- > We announced 5 different machines, which run between at clock rates
- > of between 133MHZ and 200MHZ.
- ^^^^^^
-
- 200 and 150 are the numbers I hae seen in all the DEC stuff, but the 133MHz is
- a new one. Why? Heat? Lower speed support chips?
-
- ~Paul
-