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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (63440)	11/27/2001 10:17:14 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

sun.com "Critics have pointed out that the scores claimed by IBM are achieved by executing test code only one POWER4 core on a eight-core module, accessing cache memory that would otherwise be used by all eight cores on the module. Idling the other seven cores to achieve the fastest possible laboratory benchmarks is clearly an unrealistic operating condition that would not occur in the real-world and generates results that do not scale beyond the one processor executing code on the module." Charles Tutt (TM)