[Info-vax] AlphaServer DS10 470 MHz?

[David Froble]

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. ;) 
> 

I thought it was the 386 that had the "highly precise floating point math"

It was a disgrace to see Intel's response to such, in comparison to DEC's response to the 
11/750 floating point issue.