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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (59728)5/27/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) of 1572053
 
Kash,

Well there are a couple of things you should know about that unit. That was not a production BIOS.. that alone can (and have been told did) have a termendous impact on performance.

Secondly that was only a 1/3 speed cache unit, which as you point out will make a big difference. Also there is good reason to believe that some features of the FPU on that model were disabled/had workarounds on them which significantly affected the performance.

Regards,

Steve
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