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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (22308)	12/31/1997 1:32:00 AM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Craig, Sorry for having to spoil your fun with the buggy PII. Without the L3 cache, your PII-266 might be slower than my Cyrix M2-166Mhz in system response when the cache hit succeeds while browsing the internet. Basically, Pentium processors are illegal copies of DEC's Alpha which was designed with 3 levels of caches. To cut costs, Intel skipped the L3 cache. As the results, Intel Pentium (P54C & P55C) family has great benchmark rating, but, s-l-o-w to work with. I wonder if you have used an M2 on 83Mhz bus speed motherboard to make your recommendation on Pentium II? HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com