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To: Steve Porter who wrote (39189)10/14/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573682
 
Steve - Re: " More questions have been raised by the announcement than have been answered."

Exactly.

There doesn't seem to be a clear picture that the K7 has any major advantages beyond a 128 K L1 cache.

All the extra execution pipes may go starved for data if the cache misses become a bottleneck.

Paul