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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.120214.10210@enea.se>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:02:14 GMT
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- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- 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.
- :
- : __ Paul J. Olson - VAX Systems Manager & Resident Amiga Addict
-
- Yeah, you've read it in a Digital Magazine... They can be said to be slightly
- ahead of HP, since some of the machines now are actually shipping.
-
- More interesting with Alpha are the theoretical limits, which seems to
- be higher than with the competitors current solution. It also seems easier
- to come close to these limits with the Alpha design.
-
- Note the "seems", no-one will really know for a while, yet.
-
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- Tommy Petersson tope@enea.se Enea Data AB, Sweden
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