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Subject: Re: Alpha CPU Performance vs i386
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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> As someone else noted, memory and I/O bandwidth on most Alphas is far
> better than PCs.  (The Multia and other LCA machines are probably the
> only exceptions).

The IBM RS/6000 hardware, with a 166MHz CPU, but with a crossbar
bus, really kicks butt on a 1GHz PC, when it comes to anything
I/O bound.

-- Terry

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