From: NewtonMP - Paul Curtis (paul.curtis_at_newtonmp.com)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 15:23:30 PDT
I'll try to dig up some facts. I know that the processor runs @ 533 mhz's
but it was rated as the first gigaflop desktop machine.
Regards,
Paul Curtis
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Well, I was familiar with the name and what happened to it so I figured
you were talking about something else ... Thing is I was wondering what
kind of throughput it had since the discussion was about how processors
now wait on system components.
Many of the 68K Macs had processors running at the same clock as the
system components but that did not obvious equate to the same
performance as an Alpha but it would be neat to know what the
throughput on an Alpha is.
David
On Apr 19, 2004, at 5:06 PM, NewtonMP - Paul Curtis wrote:
> It essentially has a nearly 1 to 1 clock ratio between the processor
> and its
> cache scheme all based on RISC architecture. Mind you the last Alpha
> that
> they made (I'm thinking it was around 1996?) had a primary cache of 4
> meg
> and a secondary of 16 meg and the pipe connecting it all was huge.
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