#micron p60
The AXP is a chip (CSIC?) by Digital Equipment Corporation that comes
in several extremely fast flavors. The current one is the 150
(150mhz), and it also has a robust specFP, but I can't remember the
number. It's definitely faster than the Pentium, and is considered a
workstation.
The upgrade will work because the CPU in the DEC XL machines is on a
special daughter card that can be removed and replaced with the
upgreade. So you've got the pentium for now, and when the right
software gets ported to the much faster Alpha chip, then you'll just
swap cards for a nominal fee (it's pretty reasonable, but I can't
remember the cost. Check at the DEC forum), and have a workstation.
The DEC's also have a PCI fast SCSI II controller built in that is
supposed to be quite good.
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)