#PC vs. Workstation
13-Jan-94 20:59:08
Sb: #76136-#PC vs. Workstation
Fm: Conrad Stolze 72110,1263
To: Ignacio 100115,3133
Well, we were disapointed with the results also. In fact, furthur
benchmarks using "straight" windows programs like Excel have shown
performance equal to about a 486-33!!!!
While I know that this is not the best measure, IT IS a real world
measure. I have posted the Excel times we got today below [ 🙁 ]
Microsoft Excel 4.0 Using spreadsheet with 121 Columns and 5,147 Rows
of numbers (about 2Mb)
Pentium Alpha To Load 6.7 sec 56 sec 🙁
To SUM All 0.86 sec 1.6 sec 🙁 To Recalc SUM 0.54 sec
0.56 sec 😐
These are the numbers. Your probably thinking the same thing we were
this afternoon, "These can't be correct!". Well we agree, and we
have a call into DEC. I'll keep you posted,