[3062] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-West is up again (Sun's & Alphas)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Morin)
Sun Jun 2 03:25:30 1996
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:17:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ed Morin <edm@halcyon.com>
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <9606012320.AA30567@wisdom.home.vix.com>
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.
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