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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Alpha speed?
- Message-ID: <1699@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 17:07:16 GMT
- References: <RICHARD.92Nov12152902@chemeng.stanford.edu>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <RICHARD.92Nov12152902@chemeng.stanford.edu>, richard@chemeng.stanford.edu (Richard Schiek) writes:
- >
- > In all the technical blurbs for the new DEC Alpha chip, they call it a
- > 300MHz chip. Yet, in all the new systems that DEC is shipping, the
- > chip is running at 140 MHz max. Why is it called a 300MHz chip when
- > only 140 MHz systems are for sale?
- >
- You might want to put your glasses on ... or get yourself a pair :-)
-
- The only "300" that I have seen in DEC's public releases has been 300 MIPS
-
- The new systems contain ALPHA cpus that range from 133 to 200 MHz.
-
- The REAL question here may be why DEC is limiting "workstation"-class
- machines to the lower end of the range. Too many of us who have been
- using "workstation" platforms as multi-user and/or server systems ??
- Though this may simply be a conflict between what us UNIX folks are
- used to and what VMS folks are used to paying.
-
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- pavlov@fstrf.org
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