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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (82959)	12/14/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1571803

Cirruslvr, <From Ace's: "Remember the super-linear increase in performance with the later Athlons at 700 MHz compared to previous ones? I got an interesting mail from yet another AMD insider. The information is indeed a bit dated, but read below: Athlon originally had capacity for 72 in-flight instructions in the reorder buffer. This was bumped to 78 instructions in a recent version of the silicon since it was determined to be a bottleneck for performance. As a result, the current silicon can reorder a few more instructions than the original. Looking to pick up an Athlon? It just might pay to get a newer one!" > Cool! Wonder what else AMD got in store by the time Thunderfire launches. <The Athlon is only going to get faster.> Yup! Every aspect of it should get better - the core, the bus, the cache, the chipsets, the memory, the compilers....... Chuck