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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (74267)	10/6/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572644

Kevin, Never ceases to amaze me how Intel "visitors" to this board... Never ceases to amaze me how some people think there are visitors (and, what, non-visitors?) to any of these boards. Aren't they intended to be open to all, regardless of preference or bias to company or stock? Tony

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (74267)	10/6/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: Haim Barad	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572644

Message #74267 from Kevin K. Spurway at Oct 6 1999 2:02PM Re: "I remember the posts on this page and post after post explained in detail why the K6 was SUPERIOR to the PII. Endlessly." Sure--before the PII came out and all we had to go on was Tom's preproduction version. The K6 was cheaper. Infrastructure was cheaper. Integer performance started off about the same as PII but declined over time as the cache speed discrepancy (100 MHz vs. 1/2 CPU clock) widened. PII always had the advantage in FPU (although a well enhanced 3DNow application could change that and gave the K6 an even footing back when SSE wasn't around). I definitely remember that when 3DNOW! came out with the K6-2, lots of AMD fans said that it was not only a PII killer but the PIII would have trouble keeping up with it as 3DNOW was superior to SSE. Was I dreaming, or did I hear that quite a while back. Just a week (or even a few days ago) we heard Athelon is KILLING Intel... Now we're hearing Oh, now it'll be parity. Even if Intel is a "little bit" ahead, it still doesn't have the speed crown. What's next? Haim