26 Aug
2018
26 Aug
'18
4:22 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:54:41AM -0700, Jon Forrest wrote:
On 8/24/2018 9:46 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
2106A 275Mhz
People remember the alpha with a lot of
revisionist history, talking
about fast it was. I was actually measuring performance of all the
CPUs at that time and the Alpha I had wasn't anything to write home
about.
When the alpha first came out there were 3 implementations, soon
followed by more. I wonder which one you measured. (You probably don't remember this but you once
came to my office
at UCB to talk to my officemate Carl Staelin back when I had
one of the first alphas to be released by DEC.)
I don't remember a lot of stuff, I'm old. Old enough to get the joke that
when you are 25 and you open the fridge and ask "what am I doing here?"
it is existential question. When you are my age and you open the fridge
and ask the same question it's because you forgot what you wanted.
That said, I do have some memory of going somewhere, but UCB? I thought
Carl was at HP Labs? But I do remember going somewhere.
And all these years later Carl and I are still close friends. It is
a small world.
--lm