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- From: dmiller@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (David L. Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.033908.22929@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 03:39:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Dec23.033908.22929
- References: <1992Dec15.220819.21678@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BzCyJx.D0L@fc.hp.com> <Bzoswq.4p7@news.iastate.edu> <22DEC199221001854@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <22DEC199221001854@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov>, olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson) writes:
- |> In article <Bzoswq.4p7@news.iastate.edu>, skank@iastate.edu (George L. Hall-Skank) writes...
- |> >
- |> > It appears that the new ALPHA runs in the 150 specmark range. Maybe
- |> >as fast as 200 specmarks running code in tight loops from cache. I'm with
- |> >Steve, that's not very close to 2000 but that's still *quite* impressive!
- |> >It might even be the fastest processor on the planet, that depends on HP.
- |>
- |> From what I've read, HP is a long way away from even coming close to ALPHA, on
- |> the order of a year or two.
- |>
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- Not true. Here is an excerpt from comp.newprod a couple days ago:
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- > PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 10, 1992 -- Hewlett-Packard
- > Company today unveiled an extensive family of the
- > world's fastest workstations and a suite of interactive
- > technologies that takes full advantage of their power.
- >
- >
- >
- > The new HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstation
- > family is based on the superscalar PA-7100 chip and
- > features the following:
- >
- > o performance of up to 150.6 SPECfp92, 80
- > SPECint92 and 147 SPECmark*89;
- >
- > o high-performance, expandable color
- > workstations priced from $5,695*;
- >...
-
- It looks like they are running neck-and-neck...
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