Re: More Alpha AXP Performance Numbers

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From: Don Stokes
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:28

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lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
> different *systems* by a single metric, such as $/SPECmark.  Heck,
> some of the potential customers may ask DEC to price it without the
> floating point units...

A lot of the potential customers for this box would do about one FLOP a
year just to check that it still works.... 8-)

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