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To: Petz who wrote (2051)	11/10/1997 2:51:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

John, DEC Alpha memory subsystem is very good, but it was optimized to have 3 levels of cache -- L1, L2 and a very large L3. So you can see why Intel Pentium, Pentium II and Pentium MMX, based on stolen Alpha technology, do very poorly when all there is is a puny L1 cache. You are absolutely brilliant! The shortage of large L3 cache from the stolen Alpha technology explains why Intel processors are great for synthetic benchmark, but, are painfully slow to work with real life applications. Now, I know the true answer towards the mystery why Intel processors are so slow to use and why Pentium users have to overclock or upgrade so frequently. Hahaha ....