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To: Dan Good who wrote (7508)	2/2/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: John Mireley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>sobering insight to the NT (on Alpha) NT on the Alpha chip is not 64 bit.

To: Dan Good who wrote (7508)	2/2/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Please don't rely on me for anything but entertainment value; I'm ignorant and biased (just ask Twister), and everything I say here is just my humble opinion. As for the Alpha, visit tpc.org some time and compare the Alpha-based systems with the Sparc-based systems. For instance, an AlphaServer 8400 5/625 with 10 612 MHz Alpha processors (available soon) does a TPC-C of 24,537; in comparison, an Ultra Enterprise 6000 with 16 250 MHz Sparc processors (available last August) does a TPC-C of 23143 (about 6% lower than the Alpha system). The processor "firepower" for the Alpha is 10612=6120 while for the Sparc it is 16250=4000 (only about 2/3 as much). Draw your own conclusions about what an Alpha MHz is worth relative to a Sparc MHz. Of course, as always, that's JMHO!