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To: pgerassi who wrote (50804)8/12/2001 5:34:05 PM
From: whortsoRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
"P3-1.13G and 900MHz large cache Xeons are more CPU slips and failures to go along with the failures of 80186, i860, i960, x432, and the original 300MHz L2 cacheless Celeron."

Actually the 80186 was a huge success, being one of the highest selling embedded controllers ever. Ditto for the i960. It was at one time the highest selling RISC device in the world.

"Intel stopped using them[notched gates] when control problems caused speed distributions to be wide (very few high speed parts, but lots of lower speed parts). "

Do you have any data to back up this statement?

The Whort
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