From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 29 21:27:42 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA08723 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 21:27:42 -0700 Received: from oasis.txdirect.net (oasis.txdirect.net [204.57.120.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA08712 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 21:27:39 -0700 Received: (from rsnow@localhost) by oasis.txdirect.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA01968; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 23:27:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 23:27:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@oasis To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: Michael Smith , vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine In-Reply-To: <199508300315.UAA05719@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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? --- Rob Snow rsnow@txdirect.net