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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (28463)	2/13/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 1572560

Jim, like the jump from the 486 to the Pentium is it? The major performance gain from 486 to Pentium came from the change of 32-bit to 64-bit data path, not from the Pentium processor which is a dual 486DX and performs like a 486DX. Cyrix 128-bit MXi will bring system performance to another level beyond the current socket 7 and SLOT 1 could reach.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (28463)	2/13/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572560

<BX chipset and 100MHz front side bus indicate about a 5% gain in speed with 32 meg of RAM...Not that impressive.> It will be even less impressive if you would notice that Tom managed to average 9 (nine) practical business applications (Winstone98), with a single game. Without this funny average, the P2@100 made ONLY 2.3%! It is a real breakthrough:-) Intelafelons must be extremely proud of it. P.S. Do not hope for 64MB: the result will be even less impressive...