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To: Maxwell who wrote (34750)	7/18/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572671

Elmer: You must be ecstatic on those Celeron at 300MHz. It is Intel engineering at its best. Keep on touting. Anything more good news you want to talk on Celeron? Have you bought one lately or know anyone who bought one? Maxwell

To: Maxwell who wrote (34750)	7/18/1998 4:14:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572671

Re: "Here are some raw benchmark for you" Did I miss something? I didn't see any benchmarks there. Just a description of how many clocks a few selected instructions take. Show me some benchmarks and please not alien blaster benchmarks, I already concede that point to AMD. EP

To: Maxwell who wrote (34750)	7/18/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572671

Maxwell, The website you posted shows P-II's FPU being twice as fast as K6-2 in addition/subtraction. As far as any processors doing a precision square root function in 10 clock cycles, you are very gullible if you do believe that. Even with the very ingenious algorithm, Petz showed us a few months ago, it is still not possible to do so in 10 clock cycles. One good point for K6-2, if correct, would be that division capability. However, even if signal processing, divisions are seldomly used. P-II still has a pipelined FPU. Time Traveler