Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 23:27:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950829232458.1786A-100000@oasis> In-Reply-To: <199508300315.UAA05719@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >
> > -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
Isn't that [M]illion?
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Rob Snow
rsnow@txdirect.net
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