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- From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?
- Message-ID: <2973@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 18:42:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.172941.28490@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- Organization: Unisys Unix Systems Group, San Jose, CA
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- From article <1992Nov6.172941.28490@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, by dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore):
- > In article <1992Nov5.113540.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
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- > |>DEC has a non-debugging system they could use.) Is there a rule of thumb
- > |>typical programs ("alpha memory needs"/"vax memory needs" ~= "constant")?
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- I am not a VAX-ophile, but the experience in moving code from a Motorola
- 68040 to the Motorloa 88100 RISC set shows a substantial change in the
- requirement for disk space for executables, as well as run-time memory.
- I recall a comparison of ~20% for like code.
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