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To: Scumbria who wrote (118248)11/17/2000 6:10:57 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Re: "Like P4, Alpha will also run legacy x86 software at reduced performance (using FX32!)"

Yes, while you're reading your email or typing a document in your word processor, balancing your checkbook or playing solitare you will be wasting only 99.8% of your compute cycles instead of your usual 99.9%. Life is full of these little setbacks. Try to learn to live with them.

EP



To: Scumbria who wrote (118248)11/17/2000 6:26:26 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, remember when the Pentium Pro had lousy performance on 16-bit apps? Boy, did that shortcoming turn into big opportunities for AMD and Cyrix to cash-in on!

Tenchusatsu


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