[Info-vax] AlphaServer DS10 470 MHz?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/22/2012 5:14 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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. ;)

It was the FDIV instruction that had a problem.

And that was back in 1994. Some years before the DS10 (when DS10 hit
the streets Intel were at Pentium III).

Arne