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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (53677)3/31/1999 2:53:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman  Read Replies (2) of 1572733
 
Tenchusatsu, re: "a dual Pentium III server can beat a four-way K6-III server."

I understand that Dell isn't likely to offer a super-server based on K6 chips any time soon. But it seems a shame not to capitalize on the price of AMD's low-end chips to create PCs more capable than those based upon single, yet more expensive, Intel CPUs.

There are tasks such as hi-res color printing, CD-RW burning, soft MODEM and software MPEG that consume nearly the entire processing power of single CPUs. True or not, to most retail buyers, a pair of 400MHz CPUs register in their minds as an 800MHz PC. NT/Windows 2000 and dual-CPU systems could be sold to both home users and small business.

Given the absence of such products, I must conclude that innovation is a dying art. Mobo and box makers are obviously content to wait for CPU manufacturers to offer another measly 50MHz in performance for twice the price.

Craig
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