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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: DEC Workstations
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.145310.23881@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8584@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 14:53:10 GMT

In article <8584@helios.TAMU.EDU> dinesh@clear3.utdallas.edu (Dinesh Bhatia) writes:
>I am trying to find out actual difference(s) between DEC 2100 station and
>DEC 3300 station. Both machines use same CPU, have same description in DEC
>catalog etc. Only difference that I can see is clock speed is different...

As John Mashey is fond of pointing out, the CPU is the easiest part of
the design of a modern computer.  You just drop in the chip.  It's not
rare to find two machines which use the same CPU chip but have vastly
different performance, typically because the bigger one has a faster
memory system, more i/o bandwidth, and better expandability.
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