[Info-vax] AlphaServer DS10 470 MHz?

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In article <20120122214212.09ddd495 at walker.schlensman.homeunix.net>, Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news at gmail.com> writes:
>On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:27:36 -0500
>JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>> Could it be that one department was told that model would be 470mhz so
>> they built OS level config files with that model at 470, but when the
>> chip actually shipped it wa 463 ?
>
>The DS10 was marketed as having 466MHz and that's roughly what my DS10
>and the DS10ls had. The larger model was marketed as a 600 but had in
>fact 617MHz.
>No idea what VMS is thinking it's reporting.

If it was marketing, they were probably using WEENDOZE on Pentiums at
the time.  It's very likey that it's a result of the Pentium's highly
precise floating point math. ;) 

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