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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (132606)	4/17/2001 1:43:22 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"Yeah. Number one, its spelt "argument" :))" Thank you very much, I've been wundering about that for years. RE:"2. I think he is comparing the 486 which ran at 66 and the Pentium 90 when it first came out. The 90 WAS slower, but about 6 months after its release you began to see software released with a minimum requirement of "Pentium" The P90 was slower than a 486-66? Sure you're not refering to the Pentium 60/66 which would be a better analogy since they were on a larger process. Besides that, I like the P-Pro-P4 analogy better. RE:"IV. And for your big point, that P4 takes away sales from P3. That is such a sophisticated observation, I don't think Fin knows where to begin" I know, keep it broad and confuse 'em. LOL Jim

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (132606)	4/17/2001 2:05:57 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 186894

Duke, Re: I think he is comparing the 486 which ran at 66 and the Pentium 90 when it first came out. The 90 WAS slower I think your confused a few things here (probably with the Pentium Pro). The fasted 486 at the Pentium launch run at 66 Mhz (i486DX2). After the Pentium 60 came out, Intel released an i486DX4/100 which was actually faster in most applications since it had 16kb L1 cache (compared to 8kb with the DX2). Later Intel released the Pentium 90 which ran circles around the DX4. Bottom line: The Pentium was always faster clock-to-clock than the 486 (even the beefed up DX4 version). Andreas