> So, Compaq finally went and bought Digital for a fistful of
dollars.
> Digital was one of the firms that launched the computer
revolution,
> with their PDP-1 in 1961. The first was sold to Bolt Beranek
and
> Newman (BBN), who pretty much invented the Internet; the second
was
> donated to MIT, who pretty much invented the hacker approach to
> programming and life in general.
<excerpt><color><param>0000,00D7,0000</param>Although the prototype
seen by Rumors' sources was not running an operating
system (no current Apple OS supports the 64-bit,
multiple-processors-on-one-chip
next-generation CPU), a crude benchmark system was configured using
OpenFirmware (details here were sketchy, to protect the identities of
the sources
and the Apple/Motorola engineers who rigged the prototype on what
appears to be
an unofficial basis) to compare the system, running a 750Mhz G4 --
reportedly
referred to as an "801" -- against a 300Mhz PowerPC 750-based PowerMac
G3.
Although the system was by no means indicative of how well operating
systems
and software will run on top of the processors, the G4 -- with no
Level 2 cache at
all, vs. the G3 which had 1mb at 300Mhz -- reported numbers as high as
eight
times those of the G3.
Also reported by the sources present at the informal event: there is
apparently a
low-cost/low-power version of the G4 in early development, to run in
notebook
and low-end computers. Its power usage will be similar to that of the
current crop
of G3s, and was referred to as the "803."
</color></excerpt><color><param>0000,00D7,0000</param>
My puny little 250 mhz G3 did over 800 Kkey/sec on the RC5-64 client.
Seems hard to believe 6400Kkey/sec possible in a year or so.
Tim</color>