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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42957)12/7/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Respond to of 1572557
 
RE:"By the way, Maxwell, there's nothing that the K7 has that the P6 doesn't
have. Name one feature in the K7 core, besides the 3D-Now instructions
and the P2P Slot A connection, that is significantly different from the P6.
"More buffers, more L1 cache, etc." doesn't count."...

You may be correct but the K7 has more of it. This should make it easier to get the processor to market, in that it's the safer way to design the chip?
Jim



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42957)12/7/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: Maxwell  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572557
 
<<By the way, Maxwell, there's nothing that the K7 has that the P6 doesn't have. Name one feature in the K7 core, besides the 3D-Now instructions and the P2P Slot A connection, that is significantly different from the P6. "More buffers, more L1 cache, etc." doesn't count.>>

And you think going from Pentium to PentiumPro to Pentium II to Katmai is a breakthrough? Experts weren't impressed.

Maxwell


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