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- From: pdg@cs.uow.edu.au (Peter Gray)
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.012919.2493@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
- References: <BxM81s.LxL@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:29:19 GMT
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- goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman) writes:
- > I have the numbers in front of me, but I am not sure I can post them
- > to the net. Speaking of specmarks, DEC's high-end (200Mhz) appears to be
- > ~25% faster than that of HP's. Not exactly an earth-shattering event,
- > especially considering that DEC did not release graphics-related
- > performance benchmarks for ALPHA... In a word, I expected more from ALPHA.
-
- > That said, SUN has the slowest workstations on the market, yet they ship
- > more boxes than either of the above.
-
-
- Which nicely ties in with my opinion of the "Specmark race"
- which is "who cares?". At our site we have ~100 SUN's.
- No HP, no DEC, no RS6000. How many of our SUN users want
- a faster machine? About 2. For the rest 10 Mips (SS1 type speed)
- is plenty. If DEC/HP/IBM are spending large amounts of money
- developing faster desktop machines they are not serving
- the needs of the company, profit. They should be aiming at
- increased sales by targeting the biggest market. There are
- people who want/need speed but there's not many. How many
- banks need 100 Mips on peoples desktops?
-
- Why buy a machine that runs some weird UNIX, has less applications
- and costs more than a SUN, even if its twice as fast.
- What we really want is cheap machines. SUN seems very good
- at providing not the fastest but the cheapest and most
- compatible. This seems like a winning strategy to me.
- Its certainly winning here.
-
- pdg
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