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To: Paul Engel who wrote (119176)	11/25/2000 7:09:31 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul, <<<"It's too bad Intel did not keep X87 FPU performance as a prime goal and improve it as well as SSE2 as it would have really helped out with legacy code that can't easily be optimised. By not doing this the P4 is a processor for 'new' applications and not a good solution for legacy applications." >>> It is now quite understandable (for me) why Intel made the design decisions and trade offs it made for the P4 processor and the decisions AMD made for the Athlon. If you have 15% of the low end market, that is the market you have to protect and optimize your design decisions for legacy applications and hope you can buy some time as developers take longer time than anticipated when developing new applications using newer instruction set. In the meantime you also get the additional benefit of some good press from pundits who are focused on legacy applications and games. BTW, do you know if anyone has benchmarked that game from years ago (Pong) on the P4? I'll bet Pong really screams on the Athlon. Regards, Mary

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