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To: fyodor_ who wrote (20533)	11/26/2000 10:31:10 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

It wasn't until around the time of the MMX that the P5 really pulled away in performance. Oh please. You seem to have found your calling in rewriting history, fyodor_. The P5 was running at 200 mhz before MMX got thrown in. What 486 class chip was remotely competitive with a 200mhz Pentium? For that matter, what 486 class machine was competitive with a P133, which predates MMX by a lot?

To: fyodor_ who wrote (20533)	11/26/2000 11:27:45 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: What benchmarks were you looking at? The closest I could find online was the Byte magazine blurb that I posted a link to. byte.com 486s faster than 66MHZ didn't come out until more than a year after the Pentium's debut. My personal recollection of that period is also that the original Pentium wasn't quite so overwhelming, but it certainly wasn't slower (like the P4) on mainstream software. By the way, there were P4 ads from Best Buy and Comp USA today and the only model either store was offering was the 1.4GHZ. Given that the next speed increment to be offered (according to roadmaps) is the 1.3GHZ, it may be that P4 isn't going to scale as well as Intel had hoped - it's possible that 1.7 or even 1.6 GHZ may be it for nearly a year. Looks like Scumbria called it correctly on both IPC and maximum MHZ. Regards, Dan