24 Aug
2018
24 Aug
'18
11:54 p.m.
On 8/24/2018 9:46 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
People remember the alpha with a lot of revisionist
history, talking
about fast it was. I was actually measuring performance of all the
CPUs at that time and the Alpha I had wasn't anything to write home
about.
When the alpha first came out there were 3 implementations, soon
followed by more. I wonder which one you measured.
(You probably don't remember this but you once came to my office
at UCB to talk to my officemate Carl Staelin back when I had
one of the first alphas to be released by DEC.)
Jon