[Info-vax] AlphaServer DS10 470 MHz?

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:14:43 +0000, VAXman- 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. ;)

The PC that landed on my desk about 10 years ago claimed to be a 400MHz 
model but during the time I had it faithfully reported 399.

I really wanted to know where my 1 MHz had gone :-)

It was probably within manufacturing tolerances for the hundreds of 
thousands or millions of that model produced.



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Paul Sture