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To: kapkan4u who wrote (65215)	12/8/2001 10:23:35 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: Note that K6-2 executes the same test in just over 30 M clocks (K7 in 17 M clocks -- the beauty of 3 symmetric decoders) I ran a number of servers that used K6-2 and K6-3. In its time, it was (in my experience) substantially better for server applications than anything else out there. Rock solid (on the same software that used to cause occasional blue screens in PII/PIII), and always responsive, even on a box that was concurrently running multiple servers (file, web, and database). It's fascinating that your test code has demonstrated what may have been one of the reasons why the K6 could handle interrupt laden instruction streams that brought PII/PIII to its knees. Too bad AMD marketing was never able to do the same. Regards, Dan