[Info-vax] AlphaServer DS10 470 MHz?

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In article <4f1c8e83$0$294$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>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).

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