From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 30 07:29:52 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA03277 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 07:29:52 -0700 Received: from Relay1.Austria.EU.net (relay1.Austria.EU.net [192.92.138.47]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA03244 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 07:29:37 -0700 From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Received: from aut.alcatel.at (dnisun.aut.alcatel.at) by Relay1.Austria.EU.net with SMTP id AA06711 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:29:05 +0200 Received: from atuhc16 by aut.alcatel.at (4.1/SMI-4.1/AAA-1.29/main) id AA11372; Wed, 30 Aug 95 16:29:10 +0200 Message-Id: <9508301429.AA11372@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> Received: by atuhc16 (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA05725; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:29:02 +0200 Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 16:29:02 METDST Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508300315.UAA05719@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>; from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 29, 95 8:15 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] 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 ^^^^^^ 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