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To: Elmer who wrote (33941)	7/6/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) of 1573044

Elmer: <<The fact that you see no significant improvement doesn't prove much. HP and Dell and Compaq etc seem to believe it's worth buying them or they wouldn't use them, don't you think? The performance improvement is well worth the cost, it's just that you are probably looking at single processor benchmarks, which won't show much improvement as you note. A multiprocessing environment is the only place where they are worth the added cost.>> Give me a break here. Don't you think a quad PII is just as good a quad Xeon? For half the price you will get just as good performance. Yet Intel had to have a CPU with a L2 cache running at full speed as CPU. Didn't they test the CPU before they market the product? They probably did and saw LITTLE IMPROVEMENT. Yet they MARKETED anyway. They FELT that with their marketing muscle Intel Inside they can SELL ANYTHING. To justify the TWICE IN PRICE they make the Xeon TWICE AS BIG. In a computer architecture there are many MAJOR limiting factors that slow down the system. Going from a half speed to full speed L2 is ONLY A MINOR IMPROVEMENT! Maxwell

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