Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 16:29:02 METDST From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <9508301429.AA11372@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <199508300315.UAA05719@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>; from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 29, 95 8:15 pm
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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
^^^^^^
Minor nit.
Million. Otherwise, we would have been having at least
500 megabyte RAM chips for several years now. Cheaply.
I wish we did :)
/Alby
> 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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