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To: Paul Engel who wrote (63712)	9/1/1998 4:28:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Somebody actually says something good about Intel CPUs ! techweb.com "According to Kahan, "Some hardware has better floating-point capabilities than others. The Intel architecture, with three floating-point formats, is intrinsically a superior numerical architecture, because the third format offers you more range and more precision." That format is also supported in the Motorola 68K, but not by the PowerPC, Kahan said. "So about 95 percent of the hardware on desktops has this stuff, and Java won't let you use it," Kahan continued. "In fact, Java legislates against it. It says, in effect, those machines will be crippled, not only in their accuracy, but also in their speed." Paul

To: Paul Engel who wrote (63712)	9/1/1998 7:11:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: I wonder how long it will take some news "journalist" to deduce this rather obvious fact? Never. They are all 'technology oriented'(assuming they know about that). They would never appreciate the effort Intel has made in using 'conventional(out-dated)' technology to achieve the same(or better) result. Same goes for the die size comparison. Gary