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In article <1h1qseINNdi@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West)  
writes:
> awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe) writes:
> 
> >This is not quite true.  Intel has presented limited P5 details at  
Hot-Chips
> >and at the Microprocessor Forum.  Pentium will be a Superscalar
> >implementation of the X86 instruction set.  It is a single integrated CPU  
-
> >not a RISC chip with a 386 tagged on.  It will run 368 and 486 user code  
as
> >is.
> 
> Someone posted some numbers here a while back. A 33MHz external/66MHz  
internal
> part was claimed to run at 30-40 MIPS. Meaningless enough for you?
> Sounds about right. Superscalar, and they still can't get 1  
instruction/cycle.
> 
> John West
> --
> For the humour impaired: Insert a :-) after every third word
There was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Firday where some  
Intel person claimed the P5 would have a higher SPECfp rating than the  
R4000. You can be the judge of what that means. (If nothing else, its an  
apples and oranges comparison because of the time difference between when  
the chips came out. I gaurantee you they won't be beating an R4400 :-))

There was also an article the Saturday Chronicle detailing Intel's problems  
being able to reliably deliver flash memory chips. It was in sharp contrast  
to the Friday article which promoted Intel as the "rising star of American  
high-tech." 
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