Re: DEC No longer in Computer industry

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Sun, 11 May 1997 13:49:29 +0200 (MET DST)


Thus quoth CobraBoy <tbyars@earthlink.net> a week ago:
>Intel stakes out new ground: New chip will be fastest in industry

Only if you define "industry" in a very restricted sense.
On a souped-up motherboard, Intel's latest and best manages 2/3 the
SPECint95 and 1/3 the SPECfp95 of what DEC had in August of last year:

Intel PD440FX PentiumII 66/233 512+16/16 9.49 6.43 May97 www.intel
Intel PD440FX PentiumII 66/266 512+16/16 10.8 6.89 May97 www.intel

-- Rob (who browses the Web by "em86 netscape.exe" i.e., running a
Netscape 80x86 binary under emulation on his AlphaLinux box).