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Re: Alpha speed?

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From: Brent Sterner
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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From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
Subject: Re: Alpha speed?
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:46:13 GMT
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