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To: Doren who wrote (13711)	5/17/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 213182

Doren, There is little gained by getting faster Pentium IIs as long as they are still limited to the 66 Mhz Bus. The advantage of a pentium II over the same speed Pentium is under 6% as they both run at the same bus speed. The newer P-IIs with 100 Mhz bus change that. However the AMD 3D chip will also run at 100 Mhz and you apparently can force the speed to 400 Mhz with extra good cooling. try www.tomshardware.com for up to date stuff on the Pentium speeds. I am going to suggest he broaden his base to include the G3 and other maccery stuff, just like the good old days with bit slice emuls of the 6502 running in ecl at 24 Mhz, blindingly fast for their day.(early 6502s were 1-2 Mhz or so) IBM/MOT must have sales types with the brains not to kill the goos that lays the golden eggs, and so they will come down the price/speed/yield curve, but I wish they would do is faster.