[geeks] Itanium 32 bit performace.... hahahaha

Kevin kevin at mpcf.com
Sat Dec 20 03:25:23 CST 2003


I've heard this before, but have never understood it.  What is it
about Alphas that requires more RAM than other processors?  My Alpha
has 256 and seems to run fine as a file server.

/KRM

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:53:26 +0100
Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:

> Alphas need a lot of RAM but 640 MB is a lot even for an Alpha with
> Tru64. Tru64 is a big, full blown UNIX system and Windows still a
> single user PeeCee OS.

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