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- From: supnik@human.enet.dec.com (Bob Supnik)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Keywords: compilers, Alpha
- Message-ID: <2232@sousa.tay.dec.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:49:25 GMT
- References: <BxH7s7.5Cv@inews.Intel.COM> <4248@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <4248@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>, silverm@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Jeff Silverman) writes...
- > [text deleted]
- >I don't know enough about the Alpha to answer these questions - and it may
- >be the case that the questions won't be answerable until somebody tries.
- >One test will be to measure how long it takes for somebody to announce an
- >Ada for the Alpha. We'll see.
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- Ada is in field test. Third party compilers are underway, on both VMS
- and OSF/1.
-
- Bob Supnik >Supnik@human.enet.dec.com
- >All opinions expressed are those of a hardline microcoder
- >and do not reflect those of Digital Equipment Corporation
-