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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:40:45 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        jon@cops.com
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: relative alpha speed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909012240130.706-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909012057.PAA01813@fuzzy.helloworld.org>

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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 jon@cops.com wrote:

> 
> 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?

Floating point performance rocks compared to intel.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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