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- From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
- Subject: Re: Alpha speed?
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:46:13 GMT
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- References: <RICHARD.92Nov12152902@chemeng.stanford.edu> <1992Nov12.185419.15565@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Nov13.025648.8881@crl.dec.com> <1992Nov19.205638.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Nov19.205638.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
- > 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?
- >
-
- My glossy for the 3000 Model 400 (and 400S) show 133 MHZ. (The 4000
- glossy indicates 160 MHZ; the 7000 glossy indicates 182 MHZ.) b.
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