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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (53310)	8/31/2001 1:34:32 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

Tenchu, Yes, I remember all the tricks in Taiwan to make old 286 machines seem fast. They changed the clock in the bios so that speed determining programs would giev erroneously high values. In those first days 12 Mhz was fast, and they showed 100 Mhz machines at Computex. They would sell you one at the show, or more for twice the going rate or more. Of course once you got them home you found out the truth, but they sold over 1200 fake mobos at that show. Of course they folded and made $200,000 US, which was a kings ransom in those days with 40 NT$ to the US$ and a worker getting $20 US$ per week. This was in 1983-4. In fact the clock speed comparison is not good at showing the relative abilities of the P-4 and A4 since at the same clock speed the A4 beats the P-4 to death, in fact a 1500 Mhz A4 is more or less on a par with a 2000Mhz P-4, some benchmarks ahead and some behind with all else the same. a 1400 Mhz A4 is beaten on 7 out of 10 benchmarks, a 1500 is beaten on 4 out of ten benchmarks with the A4 winning on 6, so they are about the same in performance. Of course special uses can show either one the best...in that case buy the one that fits your specials use. Bill