RW,
CPQ has bought a great engineering company. When DEC designs a micro, it also designs a computer around it. The high speed busses are designed in parallel. There will be enough cache memory onboard so the offboard memory will be kept busy.
You won't find engineers staring at the first 21264 1GHz processor that comes off the line and saying, "Now what do we do with it???". As for 'enterprise', this chip spells enterprise. VMS, right now, has it all over NT for enterprise and the Alpha runs VMS (and it will until NT catches up, if ever).
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You wrote:" How will that(ints and fps) mean to tpc #s? What kind of memory and bus speeds will have to be available to support that monster? Is this thing going to be loafing while waiting for memory to cycle. What will the real results mean to a RDBMS server? What might this compare to in the mainframe (IBM, UIS, ...) area. Sounds like a great cruncher, but how much of a Enterprise Server? What will it mean to CPQ in two years when it is no longer vapor." |
