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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.133126.13079@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 13:31:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.153629.27510@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <BxIJxr.GD5.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov10.211153.5992@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Nov10.211153.5992@ryn.mro4.dec.com> bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
- :
- :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/$?
- :
- :DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP starts at $15K
- :DEC 3000 Model 500 AXP starts at $39K
- :DEC 4000 AXP starts at about $70K
- :DEC 7000 AXP starts at about $150K
- :DEC 10000 AXP starts at about $300K
- :
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- These prices are ridiculous. There are nowhere close to being competitive
- with what is being offerred by Sun or HP.
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- 108 Specs for $15K?? Why would anyone want one?
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