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

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From: bayleyp
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 04:32

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In article <4dlt57$2552@seminole.gate.net>, cirby@gate.net (Chad Irby) wrote:

> Martin Nisshagen (martin@mts.se) wrote:
> : Garby Leon wrote:
> : 
> : > Ppro will go to 300Mhz easily.  You can bet the farm on that.
> : 
> : From that I heard from Intel it will go even higer than that. It
> : seems like the PPro is designed to scale well with increased clock
> : rates.
> 
> Unfortunately, from the things I've heard lately, the big problem won't 
> be scaling the clock- it'll be scaling the heat sink.
> 
> A 300 MHz PPro won't be much fun if you have to buy a quart of liquid 
> nitrogen every time you want to recalc a spreadsheet.
> 
> -- 

   Alternatively you could multiprocess 10,000 8086s. After all, the P6 is
a really fast 8086. BTW, how the HELL do they keep that 9000 P6
supercomputer cool?

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:32:27 -0700
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