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- From: pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: More Alpha AXP Performance Numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.053834.1742@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <Bxo927.ECF.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov16.173306.9663@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:38:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.173306.9663@qb.rhein-main.de>, vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
- |>> >memory, big caches
- |>>
- |>> Just to rub the point in: the DEC 10000 AXP has:
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- |>> - 6 processors
- |>> - 2 to 14 GB of ECC RAM
- |>> - up to 4 Futurebus+ IO busses
- |>> - up to 8 FDDI (100 Mb/s network) links
- etc
- |>
- |>yes, but...
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- |>
- |>
- |>
- |>...can it run MS-DOS?
- |>
- |>;-)
- |>
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- Yep, it even runs MS-DOS, in fact it can run hundreds of copies of MS-DOS
- thanks to SoftPC...
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- mulp
- DEC, CVG cluster buster
- any statements i make are worth less than the paper they're written on...
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