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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (45574)1/12/1999 10:35:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (3) of 1573901
 
Re: "It sounds like PII -> PIII is almost as big a step forward as K6 -> K6-2 was."

K6 --> K6-2 was a bigger deal because in addition to the 3D instructions, K6-2 added support for 100 MHz bus speeds--an actual everyday performance increase.

By the way, Tom's rant from yesterday is a joke:

1) He apparently doesn't yet know the new official name of KNI--indicating he's way out of the loop (confirmed by the lack of updates to his site lately).
2) He has a problem with AMD selling 66 MHz rated chips. Doesn't Intel do that with the Celeron? Aren't there a lot of people out there with socket 7 mobos that don't support 100 MHz bus speeds that might want a faster processor with SIMD? Moreover, it's not like AMD is selling these chips and claiming they work at 100 MHz.

Sounds like someone at AMD snubbed Tom and he's annoyed. So he continues to kiss Intel's *ss.

Kevin
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