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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (47704)1/28/1999 6:08:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571066
 
Elmer,

Furthermore I find it surprising that you can't seem to grasp the advantage of the P6 bus protocol over the older obsolete Socket7

The P6 bus offered Intel:

1. Split transactions. Essential for MP. Little value in a single processor system.

2. AMD couldn't copy it. Intel was hoping that the motherboard manufacturers would phase out Socket 7, and take AMD out with it. Unfortunately for Intel, K6/MII market share got too large and spoiled their plans.

3. Potentially higher bus clock speeds. This was not needed because the backside L2 was on the CPU side of the bus.

The disadvantages of the P6 bus for desktop systems are:

1. Much higher cost.

2. Longer latency dram access.

Scumbria



To: Elmer who wrote (47704)1/28/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571066
 
Elmer - RE: "Furthermore I find it surprising that you can't seem to grasp the advantage of the P6 bus protocol over the older obsolete Socket7."

I can't wait until the K7 comes out because then we will be able to say older obsolete P6 bus. ;)


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