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To: Scumbria who wrote (40340)10/29/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573766
 
Re: "Alpha is by far the fastest microprocessor, and it is also the cleanest architecture. "

It may be the cleanest, but based on what is shipping today it is only a couple of percent ahead of Intel's Xeon in integer performance. Floating point is another matter.When you look at cost, the Xeon system is only a fraction of the Alpha's cost.

EP