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To: damniseedemons who wrote (13907)	11/5/1997 8:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, Intel had to give out $50 upgrade coupons (for OverDrive processors) to a bunch of Pentium owners (I'm not sure what the details were). You better check, because the case I was thinking of didn't involve Pentium or x86 at all. Anytime some benchmark improves by 50x or something alarm bells go off, the usual suspicion is that entire subroutines have been optimized away. Synthetic benchmarks are notoriously unreliable and prone to misuse anyway. With everybody expecting performance problems with Java, what good is it supposed to do Sun to come up with bogus benchmark results that don't carry through to real applications? They may have done something dumb here, but it's not something that would go unnoticed for long. Cheers, Dan.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (13907)	11/6/1997 3:06:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>Dan, Intel had to give out $50 upgrade coupons (for OverDrive processors) to a bunch of Pentium owners (I'm not sure what the details were).<<< How about my six hundred bucks back on those useless overdrive motherboards I paid so much extra for, only to find them useless? Didn't Intel sell the components for those as well? Don't they have my money? Hardly anybody went for the overdrive chips because they were so damn expensive and underpowered and WAY LATE. The threat of them helped hurt AMD and the rest of the pack though. But by the time they reluctantly got those chips out, of course it was cheaper to buy a new motherboard with a better mainstream pentium processor. But lots of us went for an extra 50-150 bucks on the motherboards (when they were a new thing) on the strength of the story that this would be an fast, effective, and timely upgrade path. Meanwhile millions of old motherboards bite the dust, along with their inconveniently long-lived circuitry. And the Bay area continues to have the longest list of superfund cleanup sites in the country, due in no small part to the electronics plants. Ah well, I shouldn't complain, I guess. It's a living. Chaz