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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!mogul
- From: mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Alpha AXP performance reports
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 03:12:14 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Research
- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <1gm6qeINN9l3@usenet.pa.dec.com>
- References: <1gilq4INN184@usenet.pa.dec.com> <9212152227.AA01484@TIS.COM>
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- In article <9212152227.AA01484@TIS.COM> mjr@TIS.COM writes:
- >mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul) writes:
- >>[I realize that readers of this list are not likely to be thrilled
- >>by OpenVMS benchmarks for Alpha ... but in many cases the performance
- >>on these benchmarks are basically independent of the operating system,
- >>so I thought these might be interesting to Ultrix users.]
- >
- > The performance on the benchmarks is not independent of the
- >operating system if the operating system doesn't yet support some
- >reasonable kind of multiprocessing.
-
- Yeah, well, "on a uniprocessor these benchmarks are basically
- independent of the operating system."
-
- > When is OSF/1 from DEC going to support multiprocesing?
-
- You probably know the answer to that just as well as I do (and you know
- that you probably know the answer just as well as I do), and of course
- neither one of us is supposed to talk in public about things that
- we learned about unannounced future products while we were employed
- by DEC.
-
- :-)
-
- (At least, I think that it hasn't been announced; someone will no doubt
- correct me if I'm wrong.)
-
- -Jeff
-