[3063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-West is up again (Sun's & Alphas)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. McRobb)
Sun Jun 2 04:46:11 1996
To: Ed Morin <edm@halcyon.com>
cc: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.net
In-reply-to: Message from <edm@halcyon.com> of Sun Jun 2, 1996 0:17 EDT
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Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 04:42:35 EDT
From: "Daniel W. McRobb" <dwm@ans.net>
> 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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>
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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