Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:18:48 -0600 (MDT)
From:	Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: ClosedDos???
To:	OPENDOS AT delorie DOT com
Message-id:	<01INY6SBBH9IBJU25A@cc.usu.edu>
MIME-version:	1.0

Can't we move some of this discussion to a *.advocacy newsgroup somewhere?

Arkanoid wrote:
>> From: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
>> I wasn't keen on the MicroVAXen, they weren't really competitive with
>> other processors even when they came out.
>
>That is not true (at least). Modern MicroVAXen have performance not less
>than Alpha systems of that size.

FWIW, it's been my experience that a VAX can keep pace with an Alpha that
is running at twice the clock rate. The fundamental difficulty is that it
didn't take long for Alphas to start running more than twice the clock
rate of the fastest VAXen; that is the fundamental magic of RISC.

The fastest VAXen run at 166MHz or thereabout. The fastest Alphas run
600 MHz. Much as I love my VAXen, there's no way a top-of-the-line VAX
can keep up with a top-of-the-line Alpha.

Roger Ivie
ivie AT cc DOT usu DOT edu

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