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To: Elmer who wrote (35031)	7/24/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1573201

Elmer, <Fact is Ali that SPECfp95 is an industry standard Floating Point benchmark.> I will repeat the analogy once again since you still didn't get it: A half-pound hammer is also an industry standard. Feel free to compare Xeons with this industry standard. To translate this into our PC area, the SPECfp95 is a standard for different class of computers: scientific workstations. If you prefer to turn this point into a flame that AMD will never get into the market of scientific computing, be my guest, nobody cares (currently at least). <There are power users out there who can take advantage of the boost.> Sure every home has a lover of quantum chemistry or want to model a turbulence in your lavatory... <but I have made my point that the 100mhz bus can offer some users far more than a 1-2%> Once again, we are talking here not about "some" users but about market-dominating applications for the desktop segment. No one is arguing that "some users" may have "some" benefits. My point always was that the majority of user will not see those benefits. Do you understand the market implications of "majority" versus "some"? <I didn't want to pick a lowend .. type of benchmark so I went highend.> So you went so high and lost any comprehension of what you are talking about. For your information, the SPECint95 is the same class of benchmarks and came from the same source - SPEC.org. Maybe you simply tell us the truth that you "didn't want to pick a..." because is it not in "your interests", as you stated in some of your previous posts? "Low end..." "Designers are leaving.." Any more arguments?