Date:	Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:55:08 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject:	Re: AMD processors and assembly language
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:

> Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> > >Yes, most likely, but what I wanted to point out is the awesome
> > >overcloackbility of the athlons ...
> >
> > Speaking of Athlon:
> > Athlon is a VLIW RISC chip with a hardware Intel emulator frontend.
> 
> And, ironically, the 'emulation' runs faster than the original (at the same clock
> speed).

It seems that most emulators work much faster than the originals! I know
it is strange but IIRC there was this user on this group who said that
carmageddon under WINE/LINUX gave hime a better frame rate than under
windoze!!!!

Kalum

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