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To: Road Walker who wrote (107102)	8/5/2000 5:43:03 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

John, OFF TOPIC, please use that line whenever you like. Being a lifetime baseball fan and historian, I've been intrigued by the old Negro Leagues (that's what they called them back then) and the terrific players, like Cool Papa Bell, Satchell Paige, Josh Gibson and many more, that tragically weren't allowed to play in the majors. Fortunately, it ended finally with Branch Rickey having the guts to bring up Jackie Robinson. Actually, Satch was brought up in the twilight of his career and pitched in the majors in his 40s and 50s. Tony

To: Road Walker who wrote (107102)	8/5/2000 5:50:48 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

John, all, Ace's Hardware considered post about P4 (guy calls it Wilma): Here's my take: - despite the naysayers, Wilma will turn out to be a hot performing babe but will be supply limited by 0.18 um wafer capacity and demand limited by single choice of DRDRAM based chipsets - In 0.13 um Wilma will likely still be too hot for mobile but will be proliferated in mid and high end desktops with the unofficial and unsolicited help of VIA and ALI DDR chipsets. - The 0.13 um P6 device will become the low end desktop mainstay to compete against Duron but will be sold under the Celeron name to preserve the premium brand image of "Pentium" for Wilma. Will be Intel's mobile solution against AMD and Transmeta. - Wilma will achieve a clear cut clock rate and integer performance advantage over T-bird and Mustang (sorry guys but large on-chip L2's help improve SMP server performance by reducing bus traffic but don't help much on PC apps which are generaly contented in 256 Kbyte - compare SPECint95 diff between comparable Pentiums and Xeons) large enough to keep Intel's margins higher than AMDs. - FP and 3D gaming differences between Wilma and future K7's will initially be minor until SSE2 optimizations start showing up. K8 and TFP will show up and help even the balance. Conclusion: - Wilma will give Intel back clock rate supremacy but CPU performance differences will still be minor to user experience compared to other H/W factors (disks, amount of memory, graphics card), just as we see today. - AMD and Intel will continue to pound each other's brains out to the joy and benefit of computer users everywhere. AMD will continue to enjoy credibility and prosperity unless they screw up royally. Third party x86 competitors? What competitors? No one else besides Intel and AMD matter and no newbies will try jumping into these shark infested waters. (Transmeta? gonna shrink your YAVLIW? yeah well everyone else is going to shrink their chips too, get a life) aceshardware.com