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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.120955.8904@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <1992Nov12.143743.2517@sal.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:09:55 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Nov12.143743.2517@sal.wisc.edu> alan@sal.wisc.edu (Alan Watson)
- writes:
- > In article <1992Nov12.101520.2828@crl.dec.com> jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
- writes:
- > >In article <martin.721554717@bert>, martin@math.rwth-aachen.de ( Martin
- Schoenert) writes:
- > >> [specs for US models]
- > >>
- > >> In front of me I have Digital Equiment Germany's announcement of the new
- > >> systems for ``Forschung und Lehre'' (research and education). For one
- > >> thing it doesn't mention the first three models at all. Also it gives
- > >> the following numbers
- > >>
- > >> [specs for German models]
- > >>
- > >> Any idea why the numbers are smaller? (Is it because we are ``Forschung
- > >> und Lehre'', or is it because we are in Germany, or what? ;-)
- > >
- > >The reason is simple: folks were working on the compilers and remeasuring
- SPEC results
- > >up until the last possible moment before annoucement. Some earlier results
- > >seem to have slipped through the cracks. Of course, we continue to work
- > >on the compilers, and yet better results can be expected in the future :-).
- > >Significant improvements were made in even the last week (and weekend)
- before
- > >annoucement.
- >
- > Nah, the real reason is that European computers run 16% slower because
- > European power arrives at 50 Hz, as opposed to 60 Hz over here.
-
- But at 220 Volts vs. 110 in the US, we can execute two instructions
- simultaneously ;-)
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
-
- Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
- given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
- See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
- 80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
-