Re: Alpha speed?

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From: zrepachol
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:56

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In article <1992Nov13.025648.8881@crl.dec.com>, jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
> The current 21064 Alpha chip built in the current fab process will run at up to 
> 200MHZ (and we've never said anything else, to my knowledge).
> 
...
> So a 150MHZ Alpha system can execute up to 300 million instructions/second.
> We announced 5 different machines, which run between at clock rates
> of between 133MHZ and 200MHZ.
             ^^^^^^

200 and 150 are the numbers I hae seen in all the DEC stuff, but the 133MHz is
a new one. Why? Heat? Lower speed support chips?

~Paul

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