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To: Elmer who wrote (94889)2/24/2000 12:03:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 1575427
 
Elmer - Re: "Don't leave out this one!
"That is incredibly slimy of them to try to create the impression of an air cooled 0.18u part running at 1.5 Ghz."

SCUMbria had another good one:

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To: Jim McMannis (93420 )
From: Scumbria Tuesday, Feb 15 2000 11:50PM ET
Reply # 93422 of 93778

Jim,
The 3 Ghz integer number came from Anand
If there is anything running at 3 GHz on Willamette, it must be a very tiny circuit. 0.18u transistors are not fast enough to run any meaningful amount of logic at 3.0 GHz.
Scumbria

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Paul