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- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:40:50 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211131540.52@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov10.153629.27510@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <BxIJxr.GD5.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov10.211153.5992@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1992Nov12.133126.13079@linus.mitre.org>
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- In article <1992Nov12.133126.13079@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >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
- >:
- >
- >These prices are ridiculous. There are nowhere close to being competitive
- >with what is being offerred by Sun or HP.
- >
- >108 Specs for $15K?? Why would anyone want one?
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- Because it runs OpenVMS, and is price/performance competitive against
- traditional VAX systems?
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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