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To: Elmer who wrote (47762)	1/29/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: Michael DaKota	Respond to of 1571766

re : Nonetheless, I think Intel will have a faster FSB to offer by the time 800mhz is available. Uche...intel has a reputation for putting old busspeeds on new cpu's for ages...Look at the pentium 150, pentium 233mmx, pII333, CeleronA400...while the standard is 100 MHz or more, intel still brings out cpu's with a 66 MHz busclock, and all and alone because they want to spare a couple of misery dollar's in the low budget market...so why wouldn't intell do that with the 800 MHz in the future..133 bus sureley will be enough, not ?

To: Elmer who wrote (47762)	1/29/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571766

<Nonetheless, I think Intel will have a faster FSB to offer by the time 800mhz is available.> Thank you for clarifying your point. I misunderstood what you were saying. Given a large enough L2 any bus is fast enough. I did not know that you believe that Intel will be including a faster than 133Mhz bus on their chips within the next 18 months (or the timeframe for 800 Mhz if it is delayed). It will be interesting to see if they can create a mass producible multidrop bus that can operate much faster than 150 Mhz. Even 150 Mhz for a multidrop bus is a major achievement that computer companies found difficult. I know of several attempts to go faster than 150 Mhz and as many failures. Point to Point buses are different because they can be properly terminated. Time skewing can be quite significant on these fast buses and this is manageable in point-to-point as well. Perhaps the people at Intel really put their pants on two legs at a time!