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To: kapkan4u who wrote (123683)	12/24/2000 2:11:14 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Kal Kan - Re: "Not likely IMHO. P6 was and still is, after 6 years, a nice core. P4 core is a disaster. It is a testimony to Intel's management that P4 core is seeing the light of day." When the P6 core was introduced as the Pentium Pro, it received as many BLASTS as the Pentium 4 - for essentially the SAME REASON - slow (or slower) performance on "legacy" software (16 bit software, at that time). Now..look what what you just said about the P6 - "P6 was and still is, after 6 years, a nice core. " Since then, the P6 core has been given a larger L1 cache (16K to 32K), segment register caches (to fix the 16 bit legacy problem), MMX and SSE instructions , and 256K of ON CHIP L2 cache as well as a finely tuned L2 cache hardware. Add to this a clock speed increase from 200 MHz (Pentium Pro) all the way to 1 GHz (Coppermine). In 4 years, you'll be saying the same thing about the Pentium 4 - which I assume will receive several improvements between now and then, a la the P6 core. You and AMD never learn from history. But you should have learned this - AMD ALWAYS returns to its stock price of 17 years ago ! finance.yahoo.com Paul