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Technology Stocks : Compaq
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To: Harry Landsiedel who wrote (67906)9/25/1999 7:44:00 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (3) of 97611
 
MSFT exposed this problem internally about a month ago but has kept it under wraps. No CPQ servers have the problem at MSFT but most other 8-ways do. There is also a more subtle version of the hang which just inserts about 30 clock cycles then releases - that's not enough for a human to notice but it caused a 10-15% reduction in performance on most processor-intensive benchmarks. Does not happen on CPQ, does happen on almost everything else, according to my MSFT source. This is almost certainly the reason that DELL and others have not released 8-way benchmarks to match CPQ's spectacular 40,000 tpm result.
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