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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (24080)	2/25/1998 6:53:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Craig, RE: Jokers et all The term is et al. and who exactly are you calling jokers? You seem somewhat bitter lately. What's the problem? Bob

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (24080)	2/26/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 33344

Craig, Jokers et all ... please tell me when you have something that has TWICE the Winstones of a PII/266. Please stop me in my tracks with this news. And PLEASE tell me how you exceeded a PII/3xx in a 100% reliable way using ordinary memory chips 24/7. Why don't you tell when Intel has something that has twice the Winstones of PII/266. Or Why don't you tell me what is half of the performance of PII/266. Here is a link to make your search easier: zdnet.com My guess is that you would have to go all the way down to Pentium 60 or even 486 to get 26.5 Winstones (half ot 53 Winstones of PII/266). And PII has an L2 cache running at twice the speed of Pentium. If you equalized that (use cacheless PII with 512K on the motherboard running at 66 MHz) you would have to slow down the Pentium to maybe 33 MHz to get half of the performance of PII/266. SO to sum it up, you need 4 to 8 times the clock speed alone to double your Winstone score. In your earlier post you said: Gimme a GHz CPU running on a good-ol' PCI MB with a 3D board plus gobs and gobs of cheap RAM. A GHz PII would probably not double the Winstone of your P/II 266. Joe