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- From: jwreilly@mipos2.intel.com (Jeffrey Reilly)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,comp.arch
- Subject: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Summary: alpha
- Message-ID: <BxH7s7.5Cv@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 01:21:42 GMT
- Sender: news@inews.Intel.COM (USENET News System)
- Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA
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- The following Press Release crossed my desk today. I assume it came from one
- of the wire services. Portions are noted below...
-
- "WINDOWS NT Demonstrated On World's Fastest Microprocessor
-
- New York, Oct 28 -- Today the first public demonstration of Microsoft
- Corporation's Windows NT running on a Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha AXP
- computer was conducted here on Wall Street.
-
- <Comments by Dave Stone, DEC VP about finance and computers deleted>
-
- The Alpha system demonstrated is an Advanced Technology Display of the first
- member of Digital's family of Alpha AXP personal computer systems, which
- incorporates Digital's 21064 microprocessor. The microprocessor has been ranked
- by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's fastest" and is the fastest
- single processor machine capable of running Windows NT software.
-
- <DEC background deleted> "
- ========================================= End of article
-
- Is there anyone who can comment on what is meant by "world's fastest" (I find it
- interesting that this is placed in quotes)? What criteria is being used here?
-
- Is this based on megahertz? If so, that would seem to be a misleading claim
- ("highest frequency" does not necessarily equal "highest performance").
-
- Is it based on some benchmark? If so, what benchmark?
-
- Jeff
-
- Jeff Reilly | "There is something fascinating about
- Intel Corporation | science. One gets such wholesale returns
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