Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:07:38 01/24/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 16:12:30, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 23, 2001 at 03:59:04, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>microway sells the 21264's same as Compaq except cheaper and you have the option >>for windows or unix atleast that's what it looked like to me. $17,000 for a >>system that's over 2x as fast as the fastest Athlon or Pentium hmmm anyone know >>how much the thouroughput 5.2GB has to do with chess programs? > Some info about the used alpha systems. 21164 has 8kb L1 cache, what do i need to say more? for diep a 633Mhz 21164 is as slow as a PII at 380Mhz. So that's a PIII at 300Mhz. Only the 21264 is interesting, but only if it's clocked to a reasonable height and dual. So dual 21264 866Mhz is worth the effort. A single 21264 866Mhz is of course never going to beat a dual PIII800 not to mention a single 21264. Note if i would have a 21264 i would test what speed it is for diep and then sell it directly and buy a new car :) Whether NT runs on it or not is no big deal. DEC compiler is only thing you need anyway :) >You can buy used Alpha machines (e.g. 500MHz) for a very low price. You can put >Windows NT on them (if you can get ahold of a copy), and there is a C++ compiler >from Microsoft that is pretty good. But there is no future, since both MS and >Compaq decided not to support NT on Alpha. (And they both need a good, swift >kick for that. NT is not scalable to high performance and Alpha does not have >access to the best end-user tools and a low-end growth path).
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