Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Chad Irby
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:13

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Maynard Handley (maynardh@apple.com) wrote:

: Don't you love these articles from non-CPU designers?
: Exactly how do you think the P6 has PLENTY of room for improvement?
: They are running on a .35 micron process---improving that process is 
: hitting the limits of optical lithography and the successor is not yet 
: known.

Well... (holds up hands about a foot apart) we have about *this* much 
room on a standard-sized motherboard.  At the rate Intel is going they 
should pretty much fill it with the P8...

-- 

Chad Irby           /    My greatest fear: that future generations will,
cirby@gate.net     /      for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 28 Aug 1995 20:13:32 -0400
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