Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 23:20:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Gorm Jorgensen <Gorm@Area51.DK>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha CPU Performance vs i386 Message-ID: <3CE1FE1B.957C1AA3@mindspring.com> References: <20020514201923.GK37326@Area51.DK> <20020514222344.A2915@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020515161627.O18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > As someone else noted, memory and I/O bandwidth on most Alphas is far > better than PCs. (The Multia and other LCA machines are probably the > only exceptions). The IBM RS/6000 hardware, with a 166MHz CPU, but with a crossbar bus, really kicks butt on a 1GHz PC, when it comes to anything I/O bound. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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