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To: fingolfen who wrote (141689)8/15/2001 3:22:37 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
perhaps Northwood has a couple of enhancements in design???

I don't think so. Our resident visionaries such as Jimbo and Dan have already concluded it's a bad design. After all, if the very first version isn't perfect then no further improvements are possible, right? A total failure because it doesn't run very fast on Dan's world standard 6 year old x87 Pi calculator. Gotta get to P8...

EP



To: fingolfen who wrote (141689)8/15/2001 3:22:44 PM
From: Robert Salasidis  Respond to of 186894
 
Maybe they are adding the extra floating point unit that was removed because of die size limitations from the current P4