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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MAE-West is up again (Sun's & Alphas)
> On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote: > > > Warning: this is irrelevant to the stated charter of NANOG. Hit "D" now. > > > > I mean it. Don't read this. It's not about network operations. > > > > My experience differs significantly, but then my P/Pro is 200MHz and my > > Alpha is 333MHz. Microsoft probably has older Alphas and newer P/Pro's. > > However, since Pentium processors are CISC and Alphas are RISC, the > difference in clock speed may _still_ yield similar performance since > the Alphas have to execute _more_ instructions to accomplish similar > amounts of "work" (on the average since some tasks are simple and some > more complex). Don't get me wrong -- we love our Alphas (so far) and > feel it's probably a more stable platform at this point since the Pro's > are still fairly new. > > Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505 (voice) > Professional Internet Services > [email protected] > Before we continue on a path of naive CPU arguments (or worse, delve into 32-bit vs. 64-bit, MMU path width, cache, pipelining and stages, etc. etc.), can we take this offline please? Daniel ~~~~~~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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