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To: Elmer who wrote (52821)	3/18/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578564

Elmer, Sorry, never got an e-mail from you. Jim

To: Elmer who wrote (52821)	3/18/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578564

<Once again they refuse to say what this means. Faster at doing what?> Patience Elmer, Maybe they are not going to say until it ships. On a thread at MIT I read that a bunch of people there were arguing that it was 1.3 to 2 times faster than Pentium II at floating point. Some in the group favored 2 and some argued down to 1.3. If a Pentium II is 12.7 SPECfp95 then a 600 Mhz Pentium III may be SPECfp95 of 16.8 (IMO). I assume when people say 1.3 that this would mean a SPECfp 21.8 ( a 767Mhz cooled Alpha is 25). We will just have to wait.