Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:15:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <199508300315.UAA05719@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199508300116.KAA27237@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 30, 95 10:46:33 am
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> > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > Hmmm, what about machines in terms like SUN's, HP's will the P90 > > compare to since the Alpha is a fast machine. > > Depends lots on what you're doing with them; in a straight line, the P90 > is pretty quick, but what you put around it largely determines how it will > perform in an applications context. (Especially memory/cache/disk) > > >> Anyone who does big models of any sort uses huge amounts of memory, > >> as Rod already observed. > > > > That's true but who would actually need a gig of ram? THINK for a minute about large applications. An Intel Pentium 90/100 CPU chip as 3.3 billon transistors on it. Each cmos transitor takes at least 6 rectangles to represent the minimal transitor data and 3 contacts to hook it up, now thats 19.8G assumming I can stuff a rectange into a byte :-). We haven't even started to talk about interconnecting these 3.3 billon transistors... Can you say that a gigabyte in this world is actually a very small amount of data! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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