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To: Scumbria who wrote (119232)11/26/2000 1:10:05 AM
From: Gary Ng  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, Re: The main function of most business software is keeping track of data. This means lists and pointers, which are bad news on P4

Too technical for me, exactly what business software ? Do you mean Office and the like ?

gary



To: Scumbria who wrote (119232)11/26/2000 5:05:57 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, <The main function of most business software is keeping track of data. This means lists and pointers, which are bad news on P4.>

It also means data-mining and transaction-processing, which needs bandwidth. Last time I checked, Pentium 4 has a 400 MHz FSB and a memory pipeline to match.

Tenchusatsu