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Article #3816Re: Alpha speed?
From: Brent Sterner
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:46
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:46
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In article <1992Nov19.205638.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> 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?
>
My glossy for the 3000 Model 400 (and 400S) show 133 MHZ. (The 4000
glossy indicates 160 MHZ; the 7000 glossy indicates 182 MHZ.) b.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!skule.ecf!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!uwovax.uwo.ca!brent From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) Subject: Re: Alpha speed? Organization: University of Western Ont, London Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:46:13 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov19.114613.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> References: <RICHARD.92Nov12152902@chemeng.stanford.edu> <1992Nov12.185419.15565@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Nov13.025648.8881@crl.dec.com> <1992Nov19.205638.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: hydra.uwo.ca Lines: 23