Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 07:37:14 10/31/97
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On October 31, 1997 at 09:48:05, Chris Carson wrote: >On October 31, 1997 at 03:53:30, Ingo Althofer wrote: Comment on Chris Carson's reply: I got the information from a technician at the computer service center of my institution ( Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena ). He has good contacts to DEC. But the information was not how stably the 2GHz thing was running. It was simply "it is tested". And from DEC's cooler technician for the two 767 MHz-Alphas in Paris you can see that this is a hot topic. ( I had had some hope to get very fast Alphas for my 3-Hirn match against GM Yusupov ... ) >>In June 97 in a DEC laboratory super-cooled Alpha chips had been tested >>with 2 GHz ( = 2,000 MHz ! ) frequenz. > I'm impressed! Wonder why Dec did not supply any any >of these? Not commercial perhaps? Will be interesting >to see how fast Merceed is (now with the Intel/Alpha >settlement). Last reports say 1GHz, but not until 1999. >Seems like a long time to wait and low horsepower? :)
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