#Alpha VS. Pentium
So, what do you all think about DEC's new Alpha based machines? I recently saw
a bunch at the PC expo here in NY, but unfortunately they were demoing them
with a windows paint program so it was hard to get an idea of overall speed
(would have liked to see AutoCAD or a rendering program running). The Alpha
seems to be running about twice as fast as the Pentium and is even faster at
floating point operations than the MIPS R4000 chip used in the midline SGI
Indigo (according to a benchmark demo I saw…also PC magazine). This could be
a killer machine for doing 3-D work (if NT gets off the ground), and they only
cost about $8-10k. Anyone else seen them in action with CAD software etc?