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Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums

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From: John A. Kilpatrick
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 18:52
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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:

>How about a single step SIN lookup?????  All I want is a little 
>intellegence in the hardware so that the well defined things the
>computer has to do over, and over, and over, and over, are quicker.
>There are some really obvious things which those millions of transisters
>could be doing.

That is what I was told the RISC mantra is - "Make the Common Case Fast."
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From: jakilpat@jalisco.engr.ucdavis.edu (John A. Kilpatrick)
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Subject: Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums
Date: 1 Aug 1995 18:52:32 GMT
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