25 Oct
1999
25 Oct
'99
3:39 a.m.
Mike Cheponis wrote:
[snip]
You've been talking about PCs as machines and x86 processors interchangably,
so you'll understand our confusion.
See? There you go again! The 780's I/O was no
great shakes. Sure, you
could stuff on a Fujitsu Eagle and do -pretty- good, but it was definitely
no speed demon. Since a dx2/66 is around 20 to 30x the integer performance
of that 11/780, I'm pretty sure the Intel part would crush an 11/780 in any
benchmark you could name.
I note that we've ratched down from "any vax" to "11/780". TPC-C
comes to mind...
[snip]
Sigh. What do
they teach in school these days?
It's a matter of understanding what "it" refers to. I took it to refer to
the dx2/66 or its predecessors. They were built by Intel.
IBM merely glued a pile of Intel chips together and put 'em in a box.
Where "glued the chips together" means "designed (although I use the term
loosely) the memory and I/O architecture".
Cheers,
Chris
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