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To: Paul Engel who wrote (64760)	7/28/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (3) of 1575882

Paul, > My bet is that Merced will be very competitive with Alpha in > floating point - right out of the chute. What's funny is to see HP (or pick a vendor) compare the performance of their latest box and leave an Alpha out of the comparison. Line up PowerPC, UltraSparc, Intel, MIPS and PA-RISC but no Alpha .. time and again. If the Alpha was more than 30% faster when Merced plops out, would that be "very competitive?" I'll Intel will have to pick a year old Alpha to be competitive late next year. Speaking of bets, I'll be IBM will be volume shipping a 1 GHz Alpha before year-end 1999. techweb.com Today a 667 MHz Alpha obtains 65 SpecFp95. What would you consider fp competitive to an Alpha late next year, pick a SpecFp95 number. I mean a bet isn't worth pondering unless you can zero in on something. Rob

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