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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.140121.1923@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 14:01:21 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:
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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/$?
- |>
- |> 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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- I can't believe that DEC still hasn't learned enough to put out a micro
- immediatelly. How long is it going to be before they put together a minimal
- Alpha system and sell it at a reasonable price?
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- Is anybody out there trying to use the Alpha in a small box and beat them
- to the punch?
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
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