designer seven (designer_7@yahoo.com)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:25:37 -0700 (PDT)
Is it just me, or wasn't this thread from a while
back? Why are people's responses coming in so late?
--- Michael Wilhelm <michael@mydot.com> wrote:
> it seems to me that alpha has been beta testing the
> 1ghz cpu now
> for about 1 1/2 - 2 years now.... I will have to say
> this alpha has it
> together... The biggest diffrence between digital
> and Intel is
> advertising... Intel does much more advertising than
> digital and
> Intel's cpus show it in there price. I think Intel
> has the slowest cpus
> on the market AMD & Cyrix both have cpu's that can
> out preform
> the Intels and at 1/3 the price... Dec & Mips both
> still have the
> fastest chips and with capabilitys to do SMP with
> more that 2 or 4
> cpus.. Also Intels PII can only support at the most
> 2 megs of l2
> cache and its built on to there slot 1 card and the
> chip is expenxive.
> the 1 meg pII chip is going for $1575. the new dec
> chips can
> support up to 8megs of L2 cache and you install the
> chips on board
> of the mother board... I found a 533Mhz 21164A
> pc164UX4 with
> 4meg cache the server has 128meg ram 4.5gig uw scsi,
> zip drive
> and a few other goodys for under $3000 for the
> complete system...
> so I think dec is still at the top even there prices
> are not that bad...
>
> > On Fre, 05 Mär 1999 phoenix2063@earthlink.net
> wrote:
> > >Aaron,
> > >
> > >You need to quit listening to Intel FUD. First
> off, you can get alphas at
> > >667mhz. right now. and 700 now/soon? not sure
> which.
> > >
> > >As for Intel's claim of having the first 1ghz.
> cpu, that is pure BS.
> > >Alpha had shown a 1ghz. processor slated for
> deliver this year or early
> > >next year months ago.
> >
> > Yeah, they actually showed a 800 MHz CPU at Cebit
> last March - one year
> > ago !
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Jochen
> >
>
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> > Jochen Küpper
> >
> > Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
> jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de
> > Institut für Physikalische Chemie I
> Universitätsstr. 1, Geb 26.43 Raum
> > 02.29 phone ++49-211-8113681 40225
> Düsseldorf
> > fax ++49-211-8115195 Germany
> > http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~jochen
> ------------
> Michael Wilhelm, MIS
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