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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (742)	5/23/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) of 14778

>> P II 350 for state of the art real time order execution << I personally would go for the 350 and maybe the 400. Price not considered it is a no brainer to choose the fastest chip. One can argue that the CPU speed is ahead of some other aspects of computer design and software applications. I am sure a PII 400 is overkill in relation to a 56k modem. There is a lot of data processing potential in a trading machine. One can only assume that there will be new options six months from now. If a trading machine does real time charting and analysis in addition to executing trades and the machine uses something other than an analog modem, it is hard to believe that a faster processor would not make a difference. If you add economics to the equation the choice becomes more difficult. If the trade off is less RAM for higher processor speed then I would opt for RAM over speed. I think 128 MB RAM should be a minimum. Hopefully we will be able to discuss how many GB of RAM we need in the near future. If a machine has to use a harddrive for a RAM application you do not have enough RAM IMO. The idea of starting with a 233 and changing it later ( I have suggested this myself ) only makes sense to me if you can not afford the faster chip. If you consider the initial investment of $200 must be added to the price of the future chip purchase the economics do not look good. Why suffer with a slow machine for a year+ ? If the fast chip (400) drops to $500 in a year I still cant buy it because $200 + $500 = $700 or today's price. The chip would have to drop to $300 before I could save $200. Add to that the labor involved with a change and the slow chips trade up to fast chip concept does not look good to me. The question is, What is your tolerance for financial pain vs your desire to stoke the coffers of Intel's R&D? Zeuspaul

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