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Subject: [Leica] In the hands of its engineers, not bean counters
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sun Mar 13 18:39:25 2005
References: <1e2.378c9cb7.2f65d061@aol.com> <055EC36AD4432D8F0364743D@hindolveston.reid.org> <6.1.0.6.2.20050313160613.05d9e898@192.168.100.42> <5bc983148ea26024c0c926702643ea58@earthlink.net>
> I had a 533mhz Alpha box, back when they came out. My god was
> that thing fast. This was back when a Pentium II topped out at
> a little over 200mhz on a good day and the Alpha was 64-bit on top
In the lab, we had a liquid-cooled version of it that we could clock at
1.2GHz. The problem with making those chips faster was getting the heat out
of them.
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