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- From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:28:34 GMT
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- In article <BxIJxr.GD5.1@cs.cmu.edu>, nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:
- >
- > Two questions:
- >
- > - how much do these machines cost? What's the SPEC/$?
- > - is the dropoff in SPEC/MHz due to smaller caches?
-
- 3rd & 4th questions:
- - how much memory do the benchmark machines have ?
- - was any 3rd party accelerative software used (eg I/O Express?) ?
- (I'm aware this product only affects I/O, but
- anything else used on these systems?)
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