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To: Dan3 who wrote (20521)	11/26/2000 7:02:40 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

<Dan: but the original Pentium was. And it offered performance that was 200% of Intel's fastest chip to that point on integer and 400% on floating point without sacrificing performance compatibility with the installed software base.> What benchmarks were you looking at?? The P5 bombed out on integer tests optimized for the 486. Sure, it was faster PER MHz, but that doesn't count diddleysquat. The relevant criteria, at least in this discussion, is absolute performance on a given process. Heck, the P5 60MHz got slammed silly in most apps by a 100MHz 486. (I'll admit that I do not recall what the fastest 486 speed Intel had out at the time). It wasn't until around the time of the MMX that the P5 really pulled away in performance. -fyo