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To: Maxwell who wrote (34750)	7/18/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) of 1572724

Maxwell, The website you posted shows P-II's FPU being twice as fast as K6-2 in addition/subtraction. As far as any processors doing a precision square root function in 10 clock cycles, you are very gullible if you do believe that. Even with the very ingenious algorithm, Petz showed us a few months ago, it is still not possible to do so in 10 clock cycles. One good point for K6-2, if correct, would be that division capability. However, even if signal processing, divisions are seldomly used. P-II still has a pipelined FPU. Time Traveler

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