Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (20538)	11/26/2000 11:24:05 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<Daniel: 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?> It was not without reason that I put a "really" in there ("really" pulled away) ;) Taking the easier of your two challenges, the AMD 150MHz 486 beat the P133 at quite a lot of things. Well, "quite a lot" is perhaps a bit strong, but it did do very well compared with the P133. Did you know that a 100MHz 486 is enough to play high quality MP3s on? (you need a specially compiled version) -fyo