[Info-vax] AlphaServer DS10 470 MHz?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/22/2012 6:08 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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).
>
> You should be a sitdown comedian; you have no sense of humor.

Maybe a bit.

But it often get distracted if by some "facts" that does not add up.

Arne