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To: Scumbria who wrote (98182)3/12/2000 6:54:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Respond to of 1580449
 
Scumbria,
RE:"Only for game players who live near a nuclear power plant, and have a dedicated air conditioner for their game room."

I'm starting to get that warm, fuzzy feeling all over again...

Willy at 3000 MHz integer vs Itanium at 600 Mhz...

Itanium who? Willy the Itanium killer?

Jim



To: Scumbria who wrote (98182)3/13/2000 2:32:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 1580449
 
SCUMbria - Re: "Then what happens to Itanium? Now that would be a good Xbox chip...
Only for game players who live near a nuclear power plant, and have a dedicated air conditioner for their game room."

You've just described one of the KEY RAESONS that the AthWiper LOST OUT to Intel in the X-BOX Sweepstakes.

In case you don't remember, an AthWIPER Dissipates TWICE THE POWER of an equivalently clocked Coppermine !

Paul