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To: mauser96 who wrote (43651)	1/2/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: paul flint	Read Replies (2) of 186894

I don't think "Slot 1" was a marketing decision. Even though at first it might seem like it's a more expensive architecture, or a way to lock out the competition, it has a real technical purpose. In fact, it's probably the cheapest way to achieve high-reliability, high-performance, tight linkage between the cpu and cache. Performance tests show the clear superiority of the Pentium-II in 32-bit operation, so it obviously works. The fact that it works well is getting it adopted rapidly. The fact that it's more expensive to achieve the same thing with socket 7 will hold back the competition at the high end. Unfortunately for the competition, no one but Intel could pull off a change like this, from Socket 7 to Slot 1 and set a new standard. Can you imagine AMD trying to introduce its own version of a solution for the cache-linkage problem and getting anyone to adopt it absent Intel's approval? Not likely, eh?

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