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To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> But the alpha thing is odd, what's the alpha's memory bus speed and what
> byte width memory does it use. Is that 166MB/s show above approaching the

I'm not sure what the bus speed is, but the memory width is 64 bit.
You have to use 8 SIMMS at a time with the Durango motherboard,
nothing smaller.

> If so, then that alpha better not have cost more than 2000 UK pounds (or
> $2000 I suppose considering the price of hardware here.)

It's less than that and remains a pretty good deal.  Don't forget that
memory speed isn't the only benchmark it wins. :-)

					Jordan