From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 1 14:40:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C7615C2F for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA67342; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:40:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:40:45 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: jon@cops.com Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: relative alpha speed In-Reply-To: <199909012057.PAA01813@fuzzy.helloworld.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message