I am definitely biased towards buying an Alpha [as a psychological
indicator: after these 'depressing' tests I went to buy the Redhat AXP
3.0.3 CD :-) - I already had 2.1] - Jim's notes (as yours) are in a way
encouraging, because the main program that is supposed to run on the
Alpha uses double precision (yes it's Fortran unfortunately) exclusively.
I can also live with somewhat less spectacular performance for a couple
of months (after which we were thinking to buy yet another Alpha - the
deal is, that they are supposed to replace MicroVaxen to control
measuring instruments - the software runs under linux - and we just would
put our most decrepit P5 in that place instead and use the Alphas for
better things - just trying to cheat our bureaucrats :-).
Arno