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Re: P4 vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?

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From: David Kastrup
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:18
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"Jack" <jack@norealaddy.net> writes:

> "andrew" <andrew@killspam.gi0nwg.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bJBrtJA$H4C9Ew$t@gi0nwg.freeserve.co.uk...
> :
> : I'm not trying to rub salt into your wounds, but anyone thinking of
> : buying a P4 should first read the article in the link below and then ask
> : themselves if they really want a P4.  Let's just say that the article is
> : not very complimentary to the P4 or Intel.
> :
> : http://www.emulators.com/docs/pentium_1.htm
> 
> That was a very interesting article...very eye opening.  I learned a
> lot.  So can we surmise that people who buy P4's (in lieu of
> Athon's, or even PIII's !)  are either clueless dolts buying with
> the "huddled masses" mentality, or that Intel's marketing machine is
> really **that** good?

Or that people buying a P4 have the attention span necessary for
reading the given web article through to the last installment which
says that recent versions of P4 beat the Athlons in performance, their
design problems notwithstanding.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de
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Subject: Re: P4  vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?
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