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To: Scumbria who wrote (51118)2/26/1999 6:11:00 PM
From: Elmer  Respond to of 1571798
 
Re: "Turning off the FPU is a standard industry technique for showing higher clock speeds. When IBM demoed a 1.2 GHz PowerPC over 12 months ago, they used the same trick."

And AMD's trick is to turn off the processor completely and just show foils.

EP



To: Scumbria who wrote (51118)2/27/1999 2:30:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571798
 
ScamMan - re: " Does PowerPoint use floating point instructions? Not likely "

See !

You don't even know !

You make a BLATANT ASSUMPTION to justify your own personal motivated opinion to discredit a legitimate presentation by Intel -

Your jealousy that AMD can't produce such capable products is evident to everyone, SCUMbria.

Paul


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