Aaaaahhhh... 'Tis Good to be Back!!!

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Wed Mar 22 07:36:35 2000

> Good Grief! The most any Alpha on my home cluster has is 112MB and my best
> Alpha only has 96MB because the RAM is so blasted expensive! I've found
> that a Alpha with 80MB is about the same as a VAX with 16MB, and don't even
> consider DECwindows in less than 80MB (and you won't see good performance
> till 112MB). The 96MB machine is a 21164/333 feels about like the

For alpha maybe. I'm used to running decwin on MVII with 9meg! The
largest vax I have (memory wise) is 24 and then 16mb and for VAX/VMS thats
a decent amount of ram unless your doing large matrix math or big
databases.

Allison
Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 07:36:35 GMT