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To: Elmer who wrote (40357)	10/29/1998 8:49:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1573848

Elmer, only a couple of % behind, yet only a tiny fraction of the cost. The way your thoughts are progressing, by morning Xeon will be 100x performance at .001% of the cost of Alpha. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (40357)	10/29/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1573848

Elmer, Who is right?, you or Scumbria. From the Scumbria posts it is a lot more than a few %. It seems to be ten fold faster, albeit a 700Alpha to a 233 Pentium, which on the face is just over three times in ratio so there must be some aspects of the Alpha that defeat the x86, RISC aspects will be part of it and I think it will be architecturally better too? Will the Aplha get better? is the 1000 Mhz Compaq predicts a realistic milestone that will be passed in 1999-2000? It is a shame that DEC could not either get the yield up to drop the price to meet the x86 systems. DEC has been elitist in that area and has tried to be very specialised and proprietary. Worked for a while but the Wintels crept into all the niches and DEC was done like dinner to be eaten by CPQ. Bill