From: Michal Mertl <mime AT eunet DOT cz>
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Subject: Re: Re: Interesting benchmark results
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:53:35 +0100
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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Leath Muller wrote:

> > The fastest PowerPC (the 604) is 110MHz.. others are 60MHz, 66, 80.
> 
> Ummm... The fastest PowerPC is the 604e at 250Mhz... with a 133Mhz being
> about the same as a Pentium 166... Its a nice CPU too... :) Now, when are
> Intel going to give us 32 general purpose registers...
> 
> Leathal.
> 
May I ask what Intel processor you are talking about? In Pentium and I
think also in Pentium Pro there are only eax..edx and edi,esi which are
not totally general purpose. Maybe also ebp can be thought about as it. It
would be really nice to have it.

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