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In article <1992Nov13.175341.9175@e2big.mko.dec.com> pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com () writes:
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>In article <RICHARD.92Nov12152902@chemeng.stanford.edu>, richard@chemeng.stanford.edu (Richard Schiek) writes:
>|>In all the technical blurbs for the new DEC Alpha chip, they call it a
>|>300MHz chip.  Yet, in all the new systems that DEC is shipping, the
>|>chip is running at 140 MHz max.  Why is it called a 300MHz chip when
>|>only 140 MHz systems are for sale?  Is there a problem with getting
>|>other components (ie memory) to work with a chip this fast, or is the
>|>chip lifetime too short to be feasible at 300 MHz.  
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>I'm not sure what information you're referring to specifically, but as
>others have noted, at 150mHz, or more specifically 6.6ns cycle time, the
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Not to be disparaging, but "mHz" is "milliHertz" - "MHz" is "MegaHertz".
If I was at DEC, I don't think I'd appreciate being told that my new
machine runs a billion times slower than it really does.  Of course if
they could get 120 SPECmarks with a 7 second cycle time, that would be
worth bragging about....

I know it's picky, but us scientist types sort this type of thing ;-)

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      Kurt Hillig
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