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On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:43:39 -0600, Wald0
<wald...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>    I got a PC Computing(July 1997, of course) the other day in the mail
>that talked about the new 500 Mhz. The chip was called Alpha 21164. It's
>amazing Intel didn't build it, since they seem to be ahead of the pack.
>They profile some machines in here and they are all NT machines and they
>claim that the "Scream'n Demon" is they fastest way to run NT in the
>planet. I wouldn't know if this 'll beat the Omega Red(which I serious
>doubt runs NT) computer you guys are talking about, but I'd be happy
>with it. I'm guessing this Red Omega has some kind of its own OS or
>probably a form of UNIX.
>
>Wald0
>wald...@hotmail.com
>Resistance is Futile. We are the Porch Monkeys.
>
 
 Yeah, I read on the DEC newsgroup about the 21264 could
reach 833mhz next year.(just a rumor)  Imagine running NT
on that puppy.  That's impressive considering the 21264
is supposed to be twice as fast as the 21164 at
equivalent clock speed.


 http://www.cs.sandia.gov/teraflop.html this is a link
describing the Intel supercomputer....1.8 teraflops, or
1,800,000,000,000 floating point operations per second.