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In article <1992Nov13.140907.2304@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:

   In article <1992Nov10.204139.5148@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
   |> This is in response to e-mail requests for more benchmark data.
   |> 
   |>     Alpha AXP OpenVMS (version 1.0) SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE DATA 
   |> 

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> Based on this data, it is extraordinarily unclear why somebody would
> be willing to go for the 10000 box when the 3000 delivers better than
> half the performance at a TINY fraction of the price. Also, why aren't
> there any multi-processing configurations available?

Sure, but in looking only at the performance data you're completely
missing the point of having different system configurations. Try and
tell me that a 1x150MHz workstation with 1Gbyte of memory and a 90
Mbyte/second bus will be as effective for all (read, large) problems
as a 6x200Mhz mainframe with 14Gbytes of memory and an 800
Mbyte/second bus. Add in cache sizes, redundancy, available ramdisk,
etc., and there's even less comparison.

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