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Article #8033Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance
From: Rick Kelly
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:40
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:40
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In article <1992Nov12.133126.13079@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes: >In article <1992Nov10.211153.5992@ryn.mro4.dec.com> bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes: >: >:In article <BxIJxr.GD5.1@cs.cmu.edu>, nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes... >:> >:>Two questions: >:> >:> - how much do these machines cost? What's the SPEC/$? >: >:DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP starts at $15K >:DEC 3000 Model 500 AXP starts at $39K >:DEC 4000 AXP starts at about $70K >:DEC 7000 AXP starts at about $150K >:DEC 10000 AXP starts at about $300K >: > >These prices are ridiculous. There are nowhere close to being competitive >with what is being offerred by Sun or HP. > >108 Specs for $15K?? Why would anyone want one? Because it runs OpenVMS, and is price/performance competitive against traditional VAX systems? -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: DEC Alpha AXP System Performance Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:40:50 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9211131540.52@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <1992Nov10.153629.27510@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <BxIJxr.GD5.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov10.211153.5992@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1992Nov12.133126.13079@linus.mitre.org> Lines: 27