On Sat, 25 May 1996, Tim Bass wrote:
The performance numbers for the Pentium Pro have been coming in (http://www.silkroad.com/linux-bm.html) and the results are very exciting. UNIX ports to Intel architecuture are much more mature than Alphas ports (goes without saying) and the P Pro numbers are comparable to Alpha.
This not just true for UNIX, a good friend of mine works out at Microsoft on the NT development team. He claims they've been seeing similar numbers on Alpha and Pentium Pro machines under Windows NT. Christopher E Stefan http://www.ironhorse.com/~flatline System Administrator Home: (206) 706-0945 Ironhorse Software, Inc. Work: (206) 783-6636 flatline@ironhorse.com finger for PGP key