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To: pgerassi who wrote (111349)9/26/2000 11:08:34 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (5) of 186894
 
Re: "If P4 is a disaster, for example, only even with a P3 at 75% of the P4's clock rate or an Athlon at 70% of the clock rate, then all of Intel's processors would be slower than Tbird and the Mustang derivatives. Sledgehammer would then be much faster than anything Intel has and they would lose the high end, middle, and upper low end to AMD"

You neglected to say faster or slower at doing what?

This reminds me of when the PPro was introduced. The so called experts at the time were very critical of the new bus architecture and many called it inferior and claimed Intel only changed to lock out the competition. The point is that the architecture was designed, not for what computing had been in the past, but for what computing was evolving to in the future. The architecture was simply too advanced for them to comprehend and it's value went right over their heads Their ability to compare was based on old ideas. Today the P6 bus has proven itself to be far more flexible while elegant in it's simplicity. I type this on my dual processor Celeron system, the exact same bus architecture that powers the highend Xeons, while AMD has never shipped any SMP capable machine.

The point here is that the P4 may not be as good as hoped for in running the old computing model. Boo hoo. Maybe in time people will understand what it was designed for. It wasn't intended for yesterday's computing.

EP
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