From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 1 12: 7:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD782154DA for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA04484; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:06:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA00770; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:06:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:06:20 -0400 (EDT) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: FreeBSD-Alpha Subject: Re: relative alpha speed In-Reply-To: <19990901103233.K62240@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <14285.15184.962395.217919@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <19990901103233.K62240@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14285.30795.469601.964937@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien writes: > On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:50:26AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Also, your PC164SX is more the alpha equivalent of a 300Mhz Celeron, > > not a dual PII. Its missing one level of the cache hierarchy > > entirely. > > What are the relative performance of the 164LX, 164SX, and PC164(am I > refering to this properly)? Also the CPU's that match these boards. I'm > having trouble finding suffient docs on the various models of 500-533MHz > parts. > > Is there a good source for 164LX boards? I think the relative performance is PC164 (with both memory banks populated), 164LX, and 164SX. I don't know of any good sources. Be careful to avoid the 164UX. This board does not support the SRM console & FreeBSD cannot be booted on it. I do know that you can find Personal Workstations (aka DPW, aka Miata) for somewhere in the $1000 -- $2000 range if you look hard enough. These are similar to 164LXs, but have slightly lower memory bandwidth. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message