Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 10:07:37 10/04/97
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On October 04, 1997 at 12:50:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: >If you call DEC and try to order a machine, forget it. They charge an >infinite amount of money. > >But, there is another way. > >http://www.enorex.com >http://www.polywell.com Add DCG at URL = <http://www.dcginc.com> and a couple of other OEM companies to this list. All official Alpha OEMs can be found on the WWW page of Digital Semiconductor. >I got this machine and spent a couple of days messing with it. There >was one big problem, which is that whenever I would boot my program it >would go at some random speed, anywhere between half-speed and >full-speed. I could not get this problem to go away. We have the same problem on several platforms. It seems related to the mapping of virtual memory pages to physical addresses. I routinely run DarkThought 3x to 5x to achieve fair startup speeds ... For us, it does not go away with larger off-chip L3 caches. It seems more or less dependent on the on-chip L1 *instruction* cache which is directly-mapped on most state-of-the-art CPUs. > Polywell sent me a 533mhz Alpha. This machine has a 9gb SCSI drive > (almost a thousand bucks extra), but other than that it is similar to > the Enorex system. It cost about $6000. Right, the difference in costs between Alphas and high-end PCs seems to get more and more negligible. Just wait for the first Alpha-21164PC based systems to hit the market ... =Ernst=
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