From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 29 20:22:19 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA05835 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:22:19 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA05829 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:22:14 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA05719; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:15:39 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508300315.UAA05719@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:15:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508300116.KAA27237@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 30, 95 10:46:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1178 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > -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