Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?

["-Andy-" <see2go4me@spamdelicious.yahoo.com>]

Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk> enlightened us 
with:
 
> run Windows NT 3.51 or 4, it's got PCI and ISA buses, 
> it's got normal PC IDE controllers, normal PC-style 
> memory modules. In what way isn't it a PC, other than 
> its 64 bit Alpha EV56 processor?  And mine isn't even a
> first generation one either; it's a 533 MHz CPU, which 
> is much faster than the first AlphaPCs. 

And it's a whole different animal than the first Alpha 
based PC's. The 'Jensen' (Assuming that is what you are 
refering to) has an EISA bus, limited video options, a 
150MHz CPU, and not a lot of room for memory (It maxed out 
at 256MB). There were VAXes that were faster at the time. 
The benefit of such aslow machine was that you could run 
OpenVMS, Digital Unix, or Windows NT on the same machine. 
(Though mine was used strictly for VMS until I was able to 
replace it with a faster Alpha last year).

And back when it came out this is what Digital said:

    "The DECpc AXP 150 personal computer is the 
     fastest PC in the world." 

The differencess in processing capabilities between that 
EV4 Alpha cpu (the 21064) and your EV67 is due to a lot 
more than just clock speed improvements.



-Andy-

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