Ron Farrer (uct@fidalgo.net)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
Yeah, from like a month ago?
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, designer seven wrote:
> 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
> > >
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 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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