yls177 wrote:
> Adam Price <adam+usenet@pappnase.co.uk> wrote in message news:<1pyt93d5o3d
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> cheers.. you are right.. my ignorance is too huge. I am trying to
> understand these different models. And not forgetting i still have
> SUN, and IBM servers too...

Well, as a start, you could go look at www.spec.org, and you will find
CPU performance for integer and floating point operations for both
single processor and multiprocessor configurations.  Where you find
interesting performance numbers, take the time to go over the test
configuration.  Then, each vendor has a gob of documentation on their
systems.

You can even still get documentation on  Alpha, but I would hurry.  The
links seem to be going away daily...

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