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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (12220)	4/27/1998 8:30:00 AM
From: Alomex	Respond to of 213177

As for the arguments you mention, the only one of those I may have disagreed with was Exponential. Well, in fact simple mathematics showed that exponential design would never work. I went over it with a friend who is very familiar with processor architecture, and we quickly realized that almost all the gains in speed would be negatively compensated by the lack of on-chip cache. About a year later, when Apple dropped the chip, the explanation was precisely that. Lack of cache would make a fast clocked exponential chip report timings similar to those of a slower PowerPC with cache.