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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (36036)	8/15/1998 1:16:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572893

Paul, <DEC's ALPHA chip is a pure RISC processor - designed with a very simple but efficient architecture. By virtue of this..> You tell ME? 25,000x ..iot! I was trying to school Yousef and you on these matters in uncounted amount of posts, now you are telling me this! Just great! <Intel's x86 CPU, on the other hand, has a tremendous amount of excess baggage since it carries along rather crude architectural features that were incorporated when really fast clock speeds were not achievable due to process restriction.> Why you just keep quiet about matters you have no idea about? Let me ask you, retired woodpecker, why there is so much difference in perfprmance and speed scalability between Pentium and Pentium-II? Both are x86 ISA machines... <the x86 CPU was architected when gate lengths were about 2 (TWO) microns> We all know that your background does not go beyond this technology, what a revellation on your part! <Alpha has a faster chip, no argument there - but who cares?> Corporate America cares. Alpha servers outperform your puny quad-Xeons by 200%+ on main server functions - transactions per minute (TPM-C).