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Article #2103Re: AMD K5 vs. Intel i586 (a.k.a. "Genuine Pentium")
From: Stephen Knilans
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 00:00
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In article <+I7M9FAP4xnyEweE@visionx.demon.co.uk> "Darren L. Morgan" <dlmorgan@visionx.demon.co.uk> writes: >The one named Yousuf Khan <ykhan@achilles.net> wrote >>AMD is not making CPUs that are as fast as the Intels, MHz-wise. The >>highest speed K5 is equivalent to a Pentium 133 nowadays. AMD is behind in >>this field, but likely it'll be able to catch up in a few months. >> >> Yousuf Khan > > This is partly because they don't want to make the faster chips. >For them the cheaper mass market stuff is where they are hitting the >other manufactures, and making them the profits. > > Darren > The fastest now is equiv to a P5/166! They are showing off one that is rumored to be faster than a pentium pro! There goes your theory!!!!!! 8-) Oh well, they don't expect it to be shipping until sometime before 3/31/97, so you are right there. The K6 however, IS shipping in small quantities NOW! Steve
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f53ba,856f4fd6de997e69 X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1019d9,856f4fd6de997e69 X-Google-Attributes: gid1019d9,public X-Google-Thread: 1085cf,856f4fd6de997e69 X-Google-Attributes: gid1085cf,public X-Google-Thread: 10eae6,856f4fd6de997e69 X-Google-Attributes: gid10eae6,public X-Google-Thread: 110292,856f4fd6de997e69 X-Google-Attributes: gid110292,public From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) Subject: Re: AMD K5 vs. Intel i586 (a.k.a. "Genuine Pentium") Date: 1996/11/30 Message-ID: <stephenkE1nrrL.Dxs@netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 201485564 sender: stephenk@netcom22.netcom.com references: <579hcc$5d2@paperboy.ids.net> <57abva$da8@hermes.achilles.net> <+I7M9FAP4xnyEweE@visionx.demon.co.uk> organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone,biz.marketplace.computers.discussion,alt.rhode_island