From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 1 13:56:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from fuzzy.helloworld.org (adsl-216-62-132-139.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [216.62.132.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7A915A4A for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@fuzzy.helloworld.org) Received: (from jon@localhost) by fuzzy.helloworld.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) id PAA01813 for alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:57:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:57:33 -0500 (CDT) From: jon@cops.com Message-Id: <199909012057.PAA01813@fuzzy.helloworld.org> To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: relative alpha speed X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am a little perplexed about all of this. If the performance and disk space usage are better on intel what benefit do I have using an alpha instead of an intel... besides just being cooler than all of my intel friends? Jon Rowell > From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 14:09:08 1999 > Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > From: Andrew Gallatin > MIME-Version: 1.0 > 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 > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message