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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: 3100 mix and match
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this was hashed out in comp.arch a while back. DEC claims that the CPU
is memory bandwidth limited anyway, and that a GPX-like processor
wouldn't buy them anything.  It's also cheaper to not have a GPX
processor. For B/W performance, I'd agree. I don't know how the
colorad DS3100's perform.

Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
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