Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:13:03 +0100 (CET) From: Wilmer van der Gaast To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: assembly language and AMD processors In-Reply-To: <200001071127.FAA13545@lakdiva.slt.lk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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, --------- Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl) ICQ 55707076