Re: Intel Price Drop?

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From: James McIninch
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00

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Someone calling themselves Bart Youngblood (gt5457c@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:

) Heck, if I were to buy a new processor, I'djust get a Pentium II. You
) get more L1 and L2 cache, higher clock speed, and MMX.

The performance increase probably isn't worth the additional cost. If you do
any sort of mathematical work, you probably don't want a PPro or Pentium II
processor either, as both contain hardware bugs that will generate the
occasional math error (Intel should have the bugs worked out by New Years).


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James McIninch
School of Biology, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230
james@amber.biology.gatech.edu

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Date: 1997/05/12
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