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Subject: Re: Alpha chip

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 11:47:05 06/03/98

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On June 03, 1998 at 13:18:11, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>>And what a wonderful chip it is.  It just blows away any pentium.
>
>Isn't "blows away" a little inappropriate?
>
>I mean, it isn't even 50% faster according to SPECint. I don't think it
>qualifies for "blows away" status.

As for the Alpha-21164a with 18.6 SPECint95 at 600MHz you are correct.

But the new Alpha-21264 with >40 SPECint95 really blows away the whole
competition -- not only Intel CPUs ...

=Ernst=



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