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- From: strange@zk3.dec.com (Steve Strange)
- Subject: Re: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?
- In-Reply-To: gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:54:56 GMT
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:13:00
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- In article <gurman.722022896@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov> gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
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- One third-party vendor claimed to me that the SandPiper SIMMs use 80
- ns memory (presumably, they could use faster, but it wouldn't do one any
- good), so I guess the Alpha must be doing some heavy-duty pipelining. I
- guess the alternative was having memory no one could afford (the
- traditional DEC solution?).
-
- Well, yes, it is doing some "heavy-duty pipelining", but as a previous
- post mentioned, it's the cache that allows the processor to run much
- faster than the main memory. This is certainly not unique to Alpha --
- even many (most?) PCs these days have to do this.
-
- Steve
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