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From: Dosidos
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 00:00

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On Thu, 06 Nov 1997 22:43:05 GMT, au138@chebucto.ns.ca (PrEzTo) wrote:

>
>QUAKE is not the only thing the FPU is used for!!!  It's also used for
>intensive mathematical calculations which is why Intel chips have been
>popular in the past as they are now. 

The K6 FPU is actually faster than the Intel, however it doesn't have
the pipelining function than the Intel has, only applications that are
programmed to use this function will be faster on the Intel and Quake
is one of them. Do you know of any others?

Dosidos

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From: dosixdos@super.zippo.com (Dosidos)
Subject: Re: How fast is the AMD K6?
Date: 1997/11/08
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