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To: Elmer who wrote (72288)1/27/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Elmer,

I think you meant, had they been ABLE.

The same principles that produced high clock speeds on the 21164 can be applied to x86. Deep pipelines, extra clocks to access the L1, etc. There is nothing magical about designing a high MHz x86 microprocessor. It just requires an architect who can shake his addiction to SPEC. Apparently the Willamette? design team has such an architect.

There is enough x86 design talent out there to support a dozen different design teams at about half a dozen companies.

Scumbria
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