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In article <1992Nov15.010845.25121@fasttech.com> zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan  
Tashchuk) writes:
> In <1992Nov13.165319.11391@crc.ac.uk> ifenton@crc.ac.uk (I. Fenton) writes:
> 
> >i didn't write the numbers down, but i think that the low-end ALPHA
> >box is a 133MHz job which gives a specint92 of about 70-ish (?).  from what
> >i remember the 486-50MHz has a specint92 of around 30.  so, MHz for MHz,
> >alpha seems no better than a 486... or i am a twit ?!
> 
> MHz for MHz the 486 has very good integer performance. The R3000 is a little
> better, but many other RISCs aren't. The 486 has much poorer floating point
> performance than RISCs, but this isn't relevant to most DOS applications.
> 
> Intel has been doing a good job keeping their "market niche" happy. (Can you
> call their overwhelming market share a "niche"?)
> 
> I'd like to hear from RISC architects and implementers on this topic. Given
> all the touted advantages of RISC, why aren't they blowing Intel away?

Too many computer-illiterates getting caught by M$'s and intel's
marketing hype.

> The bottom line is that Intel has kept up with RISC much better than most
> RISC companies thought they would.

They are lagging in both absolute performance and in price/performance behind
many RISC chips (comparing *existing* chips at any point of time).

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