Re: MAE-West is up again (Sun's & Alphas)
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote:
Warning: this is irrelevant to the stated charter of NANOG. Hit "D" now.
I mean it. Don't read this. It's not about network operations.
My experience differs significantly, but then my P/Pro is 200MHz and my Alpha is 333MHz. Microsoft probably has older Alphas and newer P/Pro's.
However, since Pentium processors are CISC and Alphas are RISC, the difference in clock speed may _still_ yield similar performance since the Alphas have to execute _more_ instructions to accomplish similar amounts of "work" (on the average since some tasks are simple and some more complex). Don't get me wrong -- we love our Alphas (so far) and feel it's probably a more stable platform at this point since the Pro's are still fairly new.
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Before we continue on a path of naive CPU arguments (or worse, delve into 32-bit vs. 64-bit, MMU path width, cache, pipelining and stages, etc. etc.), can we take this offline please? Daniel ~~~~~~
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Daniel W. McRobb wrote:
Before we continue on a path of naive CPU arguments (or worse, delve into 32-bit vs. 64-bit, MMU path width, cache, pipelining and stages, etc. etc.), can we take this offline please?
Why? I think most of us can use this info. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Daniel W. McRobb wrote:
Before we continue on a path of naive CPU arguments (or worse, delve into 32-bit vs. 64-bit, MMU path width, cache, pipelining and stages, etc. etc.), can we take this offline please?
Why? I think most of us can use this info.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
Because there are better forums than NANOG to discuss architecture issues. If people wanted to discuss distributed algorithms & data structures for route re-computation or compare effectiveness of feeding routes from RPs to SPs, or even just rant one way or another about using the route servers, it might be relevant. Avi
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Nathan Stratton