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To: dale_laroy who wrote (133159)	4/23/2001 1:19:27 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hope you're right about Tualatin, but the fact that they backed off on the 200 MHz FSB gives me major doubts. It seems obvious that one of Intel's primary concerns with Tualatin is not making P4 look any worse than it already does I have not bought into the FUD that P4 looks bad. I remember when Pentium came out and 60MHz was not noticibly better than the 486DX2. When the DX4 came out it beat the Pentium in some benchmarks. The Pentium die was huge and ran extremely hot. Only after a process change or 2 did it really hit it's stride. The PPro was the same way. The 2 die in the package were each as big as a P4 today. Performance on legacy software was poor, just like today. The P6 bus was trashed by the ignorant who couldn't look anywhere but backwards. I'm not surprised that history repeats itself once again. I expect P4 will seperate itself from the pack as soon as it moves to a new process. Just like the P6 did and the Pentium before it. What surprises me the most is that this isn't obvious to the distractors, but I guess they'll never learn from the past. As for the FSB, I'm a little surprised too. EP