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To: combjelly who wrote (142150)1/25/2002 2:45:17 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1581337
 
It's ugly because, well, x86 is ugly.
I would also like to think that AMD is working on scalability. The Athelon seems to be a bit harder to ramp up speed than Intel's designs. I would imagine that this was a consideration and even if 64 bit is a marginal application, it would be a faster 32bit processor.
TP