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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:13:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux AT dds DOT nl>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: assembly language and AMD processors
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> I have a Athlon cpu with my computer and all i can say is that this 
> machine is blazingly fast.  Especialy the floting points calculations
And is the stability okay too?? Some people say it's a little bit risky
to buy an Athlon because the chipset is said to be not fully out-developed.
And is the Athlon even faster than the Digital Alpha????

> It trashes equivalent Intel chips by a long way. For ex a 500 mhz 
> Athlon can easily compete with a 600Mhz Intel. And the 700MHZ 
> Athlon Is the fastest cpu on the planet, It beats the best intel can 
> throw (the coppermine).
The fastest x86 CPU, probably. I'm not saying the Alpha is the best, but
there are quite some _expensive_ Unix workstations that are faster than any
current x86 CPU. They probably cost about $50000, though. I've got an old
m68k SYSV machine, 25MHz, 16MB RAM, 300MB SCSI, etc, it once costed about
$25000... I have 'em for free...

> AMD promises that because of it's advanced architecture it can 
> extend the CPU speeds up to 1000MHZ (1GHZ) !. If so then this 
> should be a real killer and put that trash Intel out of buisness 
> (Thank God if this happens. Intel and M$ are the scourge of this 
> planet).
So we can finally defeat Wintel. That would be very cool.

> So If anyone is considering buying a new PC IMHO you should go 
> for the athlon as the chips are faster and a lot cheaper than Intel 
> ones. This is a positive gain in anyones equation.
It's good for AMD to buy one, (and for yourself, of course!) they're
having difficult times, financially. But as soon as I have got enough
money, I'll buy a big-beast Digital Alpha. Those machines are cheap
and fast, but not x86 compatible. That doesn't matter, it runs (almost)
all Linux software, and I can use my K6-233 as a second computer system.
Who cares??? Nobody... I must stop talking about non-interesting things
now...


Greetings,

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Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl)
ICQ 55707076

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