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To: Mark Brophy who wrote (4487)10/22/1996 3:07:00 PM
From: Paul Engel   of 186894
 
Mark - Re:"Byte used a 466 MHz Alpha with 128M RAM."

Thanks for the input.

Clearly, the high speed of this processor (Alpha, 466 MHz) has a lot to do with the "acceptable" speed of translation.

On a simplistic basis (Yeah, you can argue about bus speeds, caches, etc.) the "efective speed" of translation/execution is about 133/466 to 133/2/466 or about 28% to 14%.

A severe penalty, but if the host processor is fast enough, it may suffice.

By the way, what was the cost of the Alpha 466 MHz machine?

After today's "earnings" report by DEC, I think they had better sell a lot of these Alpha systems real soon.

Paul
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