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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:48:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Michael Smith 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)

	Hmmm, I see what you mean.  Somehow it seems a P590 can handle 20 users
doing the same things as a SUN SparcStation 20 alot easier than the SUN can.

> >> 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?
> 
> In one of my looking-for-work periods, I did some time as a CAD operator
> for the local telephone company, feeding all of their cabling details
> into a mixed oracle/GDS database.
> 
> We were using Decstations (mostly /133's) with 64M of core and ~500M of
> swap.  They used to thrash horribly whenever you moved around the suburb,
> and often ran out of swap.  The database admin machine had 128M of core
> and several GB of swap (for working in larger areas, obviously).
> 
> Ahh, fond memories... whenever you wanted a 5 min. break, a surreptitions
> ^\ in the GDS window kept your supervisor scurrying 8) (And none of them
> ever worked it out ... )
> 
> Anyway, this is rather off-topic 8)  

	Oh, I see what you mean now since CAD does require alot =)


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