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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.174642.13285@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:46:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.150330.26923@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
- |> Our Alpha AXP products were announced today. The 200 MHz DEC 10000 Model 610 AXP
- |> achieves 184 SPECmark89, 106.5 SPECint92, 200.4 SPECfp92.
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- Thanks, Dileep. Numbers _have_ to be better than marketing-speak.
- What company in their right minds _really_ wants to be associated in
- the public mind with the Guiness book of records?
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- |> Is there a faster microprocessor system?
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- Presumably not today - but tomorrow's another story :-)
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- Robin (come back John Drummond) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
- U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
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