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Re: MAE-West is up again (Sun's & Alphas)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher E. Stefan)
Sat Jun 1 16:31:08 1996

Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 13:17:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Christopher E. Stefan" <flatline@ironhorse.com>
To: Tim Bass <nanog@linux.silkroad.com>
cc: nanog@Merit.Net
In-Reply-To: <199605251819.OAA19159@linux.silkroad.com>

On Sat, 25 May 1996, Tim Bass wrote:

> The performance numbers for the Pentium Pro have been coming in
> (http://www.silkroad.com/linux-bm.html) and the results are 
> very exciting.  UNIX ports to Intel architecuture are much more
> mature than Alphas ports (goes without saying) and the P Pro
> numbers are comparable to Alpha.

This not just true for UNIX, a good friend of mine works out at Microsoft 
on the NT development team.  He claims they've been seeing similar 
numbers on Alpha and Pentium Pro machines under Windows NT.

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