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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.123221.9069@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <1992Nov15.010845.25121@fasttech.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:32:21 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Nov15.010845.25121@fasttech.com> zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan
- Tashchuk) writes:
- > In <1992Nov13.165319.11391@crc.ac.uk> ifenton@crc.ac.uk (I. Fenton) writes:
- >
- > >i didn't write the numbers down, but i think that the low-end ALPHA
- > >box is a 133MHz job which gives a specint92 of about 70-ish (?). from what
- > >i remember the 486-50MHz has a specint92 of around 30. so, MHz for MHz,
- > >alpha seems no better than a 486... or i am a twit ?!
- >
- > MHz for MHz the 486 has very good integer performance. The R3000 is a little
- > better, but many other RISCs aren't. The 486 has much poorer floating point
- > performance than RISCs, but this isn't relevant to most DOS applications.
- >
- > Intel has been doing a good job keeping their "market niche" happy. (Can you
- > call their overwhelming market share a "niche"?)
- >
- > I'd like to hear from RISC architects and implementers on this topic. Given
- > all the touted advantages of RISC, why aren't they blowing Intel away?
-
- Too many computer-illiterates getting caught by M$'s and intel's
- marketing hype.
-
- > The bottom line is that Intel has kept up with RISC much better than most
- > RISC companies thought they would.
-
- They are lagging in both absolute performance and in price/performance behind
- many RISC chips (comparing *existing* chips at any point of time).
-
- [rest deleted]
-
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- HELP!!!
-
- --
- 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.
-