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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19830)	11/20/2000 2:08:02 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Dan, Re: everybody keeps claiming that the PPro looked slow until software was optimized for it, but as I remember it, that's another crock. The PPro looked slow in 16 bit mode because of some implementation botch in the memory management unit, but it always looked plenty fast for the time in 32 bit mode. This is exactly how I remember it. It's somewhat funny: At that time one application where the PPro did really shine was "Quake" (one of the few MS-DOS 32-Bit applications ever released). In fact it was for many gamers the CPU of choice at that time although it was very expensive. I even remember a friend of mine buying a PPro because of that. But I guess that's where the analogy to today's P4 ends: No one would buy a P4 to play "Quake III" faster -- clearly the video cards are the bottlenecks today. Andreas

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