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- Subject: Re: More Alpha AXP Performance Numbers
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- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:28:46 GMT
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- lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
- > different *systems* by a single metric, such as $/SPECmark. Heck,
- > some of the potential customers may ask DEC to price it without the
- > floating point units...
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- A lot of the potential customers for this box would do about one FLOP a
- year just to check that it still works.... 8-)
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