Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:18:42 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. > >Bob, I don't know why you think the chip is wildly popular. Remember >when DEC took out an entire page of the NY Times to announce that >they've sold 10,000 Alphas? Intel sells a thousand TIMES as many >processors in a single year. The Alpha isn't even popular when compared >to Intel clone chips. > >Cheers, >Tom Ummm.. based on the fact that Intel paid Digital billions of dollars for the technology? Or is intel completely ignorant and simply spending that kind of money on tiny boat anchors. And the current 21264 alpha really does blow away pentiums... by a factor of two at least... And by the time the 450mhz pentiums hit the street this will widen to 3x or more...
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