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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 15:13:00 -0300
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Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
>
> > AMD promises that because of it's advanced architecture it can
> > extend the CPU speeds up to 1000MHZ (1GHZ) !.

In fact kryotech (http://www.kryotech.com) sells machines equiped with an AMD
Athlon running at 1GHz (is nominally an 800MHz CPU overcloacked and cooled with
a -40 C refrigerator ;-)


> 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.

Hmmm.... Intel have the IA64 to compete, I don't know.

BTW Athlon is a *9* parallel units and a very good RISC core plus the EV6 Alpha
Bus, so don't get too impressed if an Athlon can really beat an Alpha.

SET

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