Re: [SILUG]: Re: FREE Alphas!!

[Rich <rich@richnut.com>]

> As a rule, the 166 MHz 21064 runs somewhere near the speed of a
> Pentium 60.  The tiny cache in the Multia/UDBs really kills
> performance...

Not to mention they have to spend more cycles to do the same thing that a PC 
does.   (RISC vs CISC) From what I remember Alpha is a very simple instruction
set, which is why clock rates are so high, but performance wins are not as
great as they seem.

-Rich

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