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To: Arnold Layne who wrote (4642)	4/8/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: Mark Dalton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14451

When will they learn??? Performance has had more to do with the MACHINE than the Mhz of a CPU for years! It is the bandwidth, memory, cache, and Operating system that are the bottle necks.. Mark

To: Arnold Layne who wrote (4642)	4/9/1998 5:01:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

> KP21164 Alpha processors from > Digital, with performance ranging from 500MHz to 633MHz. Performance expressed in MHz. Shees. My microwave must be very high performance indeed. Better port Windows NT to it ;).

To: Arnold Layne who wrote (4642)	4/9/1998 5:09:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

> They're getting three to five time the performance of an SGI machine > at much lower cost. If he's talking about the Digital Domain machines, he should have phrased it 'these new machines are better performing than these older SGI workstations'; but then it wouldn't sound so sexy, would it; it just sounds normal. And it's still the SGIs they use for authoring, too :). For another sound, see Entertainment Industry Leaders Depend on Silicon Graphics Compute Power to Render Major Motion Pictures and TV Programs sgi.com