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To: denni who wrote (54998)	5/2/1998 6:49:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Denni - Re: "what is camino?" Camino is the code name for the chip set that will support Katmai and will include RAMBUS support as well as SLDRAM support. However, Camino won't be ready until late this year and I understand that Katmai first silicon has been in Intel's hands for a week or two and silicon check out looks pretty good so far. Katmai, of course, is the follow on to Deschutes with KNI (Katmai New Instructions), formerly called MMX2. These are 70+ MMX instructions that operate on double precision floating point operands, as opposed to integer operands for the existing MMX instructions in Pentium II/Deschutes chips. These will greatly enhance 3D mathematical computations for rich, graphical displays. Intel may release Katmai with the 440 BX chip set in order to get it to market early ---although this strategy is still being debated/developed within Intel. A second version of Katmai will also be "spun" which will include a 256 K L2 SRAM cache grafted onto the CPU silicon - which will of course run at full processor speed. This version is set for 1999 and may be the one introduced with the Camino chip Set. Paul

To: denni who wrote (54998)	5/2/1998 6:54:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Denni - Re: "what processor/speed/os are you waiting for?" Katmai may appear in 300 or 400 MHz portables next year. If so, I may pass my 166 MHz Pentium MMX to my son and treat myself to one of those new notebook PCs. As far as O/S's go, I WAS waiting for Windows NT but I have been using Windows 95 OSR2 since I got the notebook and a 200 MHz PMMx desktop (August/September, 1997) and I have found it to be very stable and predictable - NOT PERFECT - but very, very good. Paul