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To: Hans de Vries who wrote (111150)	5/16/2000 7:28:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1575980

Hans thanks for the link. The pdf at that site (http://www.chip-architect.com), has some interesting information. I liked one of its conclutions - "Then we must conclude that the performance gap at equal frequency between the current Thunderbird and Coppermine will only grow signifigantly in the case of the Mustang and Willamette". Of course that "at equal frequency" part is important and it is possible that Intel will be able to maintain a frequency advantage. I also thought it was interesting when it stated that the relative processing time/access time ratio between a Mustang or Wilamette and DDRDram or 2 channel Rambus was about that same as that between an 8086 and a 15,000 rpm hard drive. So that running a Mustang or Wilamette with cache disabled would cause the processor to wait as much on main memory as an 8086 would wait if it had no DRAM just virtual memory on a very fast HD.

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