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- From: paulk@kpc.com (Paul Kalapathy)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.143555.20306@kpc.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 14:35:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.153629.27510@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <BxIM38.L9F.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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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.
-
- I suspect that the main reason for this is that HP has had considerably
- more time for their compilers to mature on the PA. Remember that the
- Precision Architecture has been around since the mid-80's whereas the
- Alpha architecture is new.
-
- -Paul
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