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To: d e conway who wrote (54829)	4/8/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573003

<There can be no doubt that the architecture of the K7 is way beyond the PIII...it will blow PIII away.> Dan, have you been keeping an open mind? I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The K7 architecture is not "way beyond the PIII." Rather, it's more like a PII-plus, featuring more of what made the Pentium II so great. That's why I call the K7 the Mustang of x86 processors (as opposed to Porsche or Ferrari). There are only three things radically different in the K7 compared to the Pentium III: symmetric decoders (more flexible than the Pentium III's), an oversized L1 cache whose longer latency slightly diminishes its benefit, and the 200 MHz point-to-point processor-to-chipset connection. Tenchusatsu

To: d e conway who wrote (54829)	4/8/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573003

Re: "I cannot believe the intelabee crap that I am reading.There can be no doubt that the architecture of the K7 is way beyond the PIII...it will blow PIII away. For proof, just take look at it: etc etc" True to form, you point to a set of foils to prove how great the Kmart7 will someday be. Now I'm the first to admit that these new reports of disappointing performance for REAL SILICON may be premature, but in the absence of anything else (other than foils) it's the only real(?) information we have. EP