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- From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT (processor comparison)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.190008.25875@ohsu.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 19:00:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ohsu.1992Dec24.190008.25875
- References: <1992Dec23.192238.18955@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec23.192238.18955@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- vesper@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Vesper - RMS) writes:
- > >
- > > A little commentary....
- > >
- >
- > Your commentary is out of date. Look at the NEW new HP's. ie the 735 and
- 755.
- > They beat the alpha's, and at only 99 MHZ - alpha is good, but PA RISC is
- > better..
-
- So, what you are saying is that HP achieved a performance
- boost from 132 MIPS to 400 MIPS? This sounds pretty
- far-fetched... The article states that the Alpha team
- wants to achieve a superiority in clock speed by at least
- 50% when Alpha is introduced. They figured the industry
- leader in 1992 would be at a clock rate of 120 MHz making a
- minimum clock rate for Alpha to be 180 MHz. It sounds like
- their projections were pretty close, and since they have
- already shown a 150 MHz alpha that achieved a 50% increase
- in performance over the PA-4 at 66 MHz, I think the actual
- release version of Alpha will maintain this advantage.
- I'm really not up-to-date on the HP line of processors,
- but unless the latest (as compared to July 1992) has
- significant revisions, I find it hard to believe that
- they currently "beat" the latest Alpha technology.
-
- I'm not necessarily being a proponent for the Alpha, I
- just think its great news that DEC finally seems to have
- done something right, and with some sort of vision.
-
- As an aside, the article further states that over 600
- software suppliers have agreed to port their software to
- the Alpha architecture, included among them many
- leading companies...etc, Sounds good if its true. ;)
-
-
- Daniel
-
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