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To: Process Boy who wrote (78438)	11/3/1999 1:14:00 AM
From: Steven Ivanyi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576853

I'm due to get a new computer. Currently I have a Pentium II 300 with 96 mb of ram on a Asus motherboard running 4 monitors under win 8=98. I'm looking at the Athlon 700 and the Pentium 733. Any suggestions from anyone as to what processor would serve me best. Or should I just wait. I use my computer solely for direct access trading purposes, using a cable modem. any replies would be sincerely appreciated. Steven

To: Process Boy who wrote (78438)	11/3/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576853

PB, <I wonder what the proposed crossover point (time frame) is for TLP to exhibit significant benefit over ILP. Any ideas on this?> Right now crossover is a non-issue - we haven't even established the baseline yet. I guess sometime during the second half of next year (or first half of 2001) we will see Merced/Wilamette/Athlon and other processors with quite a few twists pitted against each other. That's when we will have some realistic data to benchmark against. Until then we will not have much to establish the starting point. Chuck

To: Process Boy who wrote (78438)	11/3/1999 2:41:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576853

PB, the pursuit of thread-level parallelism (TLP) is growing over a concern that computer architects have already squeezed all of the instruction-level parallelism (ILP) possible. Intel, of course, will argue that there is still a lot of ILP left to exploit, while IBM and Compaq/Digital will argue the opposite. I don't think anyone knows the real answer to this debate. But I do know that "TLP vs. ILP" is the new debate that will replace the old "CISC vs. RISC" debate. Tenchusatsu