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- From: bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar)
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.212454.6317@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov10.153629.27510@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <BxIM38.L9F.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 10 NOV 92 16:26:47
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- In article <BxIM38.L9F.2@cs.cmu.edu>, lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes...
- >
- >So, we now have non-simulated non-prototype-system numbers for the
- >DEC 21064 chip and the HP 7100 chip. The result is that the HP at 99
- >MHz has about the SPECs of a 21064 at 160 MHz.
- >
- >DEC wins the performance-at-any-price race with a 200 MHz offering,
- >with 1.33 x the SPECs of the hottest HP.
- >
- >The performance-at-a-price race is closer. The 99 MHz HP 735 is $35k
- >versus $39k for a 150 MHz Alpha. Practical issues (like ship dates
- >and configuration details) dominate the technical issues here. Which
- >is sort-of the message that DEC and HP want you to hear, since they
- >plan to migrate the technology into cheaper boxes.
- >
- >Damn that's fast.
- >--
- Don't forget about the 108 SPECmark89 DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP priced at $14,995!
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- /dileep
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