From: kenney@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Kenney) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: 24 Apr 1993 01:17:02 GMT
In article <1993Apr23.183155.22478@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:
>root@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor) writes:
...
>The latest PC Magazine says that the Alpha 21064 is "claimed" to be 15%
>faster than the Pentium in integer operations, and 120% faster in floating
>point ops. (April 27th, p 139). That's for a 150Mhz Alpha chip, and there are
>faster versions available.
>
>Frankly, I wasn't impressed at all after reading the reviews on the Pentium.
>Both DEC and MIPS/SGI have it beat with the 21064 and the R4000 chips.
>
But how much do they cost? I'll bet the Pentium will be cheaper. What
about future upgrades? There are lots of factors to consider.