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To: Maxwell who wrote (42570)	12/2/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1586434

Re: "He makes claim without any facts." Good one Maxwell!!! EP

To: Maxwell who wrote (42570)	12/2/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1586434

Maxwell, Interesting conclusions from JCs page... chiptech.com "KNI is superior to 3DNow! (assuming they got the throughputs right, of course). It should be, it took Intel more than half a year longer to develop it. The problem is, it's not significantly better, it's not noticeably better. With the diminishingly small difference in ability between the two instruction sets, it'll be a matter of who has a stronger memory design to feed the cpu fast enough to keep it close as possible to peak. And with twice as much L1, with twice as fast memory bandwidth, and with more sustained issues per cycle, the K7 will easily, as one AMD rep put it, "mop the floor" with Katmai." ---- Jim

To: Maxwell who wrote (42570)	12/2/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586434

<Anand is still a high school kid and lack of understanding of computer architecture, hardwares, and softwares. He makes claim without any facts.> You can also say that Herr Tom Uberclockermeister, a doctor by trade, lacks understanding of computer architecture, hardware, and software, and therefore makes claims without any facts. Remember how Tom recommended that we all sell Intel stock and buy AMD because of the K7? Of course, I personally wouldn't say that about either of them. Both of them have much more experience in benchmarking and hardware tweaking than I do. Their computer architecture knowledge may fall short, but I still trust them when it comes to the bottom-line performance figures. Tenchusatsu