Re: Sybase 11 TPCC on DEC (your comments please)

In article <4clv72$4ql@xmission.xmission.com>, butlerm@xmission.xmission.com says... > > Among other things the Alpha processor is a true 64 bit chip >which is greate for implementing relational databases because a 64 bit address >space is large enough to map nearly every disk on the planet into virtual >memory... Make that more than every disk ever manufactured. 8 bit = your business card 16 bit = your desktop 32 bit = a downtown city block 64 bit = almost twice the land mass of this planet -- Lisa Roderick Applications Systems Engineering Performance Group Digital Equipment Corporation Nashua, NH lisa.roderick@zko.mts.dec.com