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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39631)	10/19/1998 11:12:00 PM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 1578738

Tenchusatsu, Re: "Your (Brian) statements here, especially the one below, show that you've got some heavily-tinted AMD goggles on." Those aren't "goggles", Ten ... Those are AMD "blinkers". Brian has been wearing them as AMD has crashed from $48 -> $14. Make It So, Yousef

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39631)	10/19/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578738

I'll bet that in theory, a K6 without an L2 cache on the motherboard, running at 266 MHz on a 66 MHz bus, will be slower than a Celeron 266 without L2 cache, even more so when running Windows NT and 100% 32-bit code. So much for the "superior" K6. Tenchusatsu Why are you so cheap not to make tests by yourself before you placed a bet on the inferior PII? At least, you should try a research before you bet. anandtech.com Without L2 cache, PII vs K6 is 41.9 51.6

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39631)	10/20/1998 2:05:00 AM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578738

Tsen , re. PII inferiority The FPU of the PII as everyone in the PC press acknowledges is better than the K6 but the integer unit is slower , one reason is that K6 is a 6 issue execution unit as opposed to PII's 5 issue . The K6 also was designed with L1 cache twice the size of PII those 2 factors make the K6 core superior . Laying bets that a k6 without L2 cache on Mboard is slower than a Celeron is pointless since it is unlikely that you bother proving it . The Celeron 266mhz was slower than a K6-200 that is sufficient proof that most of the "high performance" of the PII comes from the L2 cache on the daughter board since that is the only real diffference , Brian