[rescue] Ok, so I went and looked at my Alpha box...

[Ken Hansen]

Ah, I knew it was memory-related, and your comments reminded me that it was, in fact,
the processor, not the memory bus per se...

Ken

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On July 17, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > In a few weeks, when the dust settles, I'll try different OSes on the box - I seem
> > to recall that the Alphastation 200 was very similar to the Multis, but without th
> > e"brain-dead" memory access problems that severly limited performance. Also, the
> > "beefy" 512K cache helps...
>
>   The Multia's unbelievably crappy performance is due to
> memory-related design flaws in the 21066 processor, not the Multia
> that's wrapped around it.  Your AS200 is built around the 21064, its
> (much faster) predecessor.
>
>   The AS200 is a very nice little machine...compact, cheap, and capable
> of accomplishing amazing amounts of work.  I'm running a few of them
> here and I adore them.  Except for the one that I got from a certain
> person here that still isn't running because it came without a
> fan. 8-)
>
>          -Dave McGuire
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