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- From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
- Organization: Private uucp site lost in the voids of the black hole Germany is in the Internet
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- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:19:12 GMT
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- scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray) writes:
-
- >Sorry, this is another Intel marketting ploy. The DX4 chips are clock tripled.
- >The 100Mhz uses a clock tripled 33.2 Mhz giving 99.6Mhz. I presume Intel
- >have some clever reason why they call it the DX"4".
-
- They argue it is giving performance equivalent to a clock-quadrupled 486,
- because the Intel DX4 has a 16k cache instead of the DX and DX2's 8k.
- Of course, AMD (with their 8k cache DX4s) will have a tough time explaining...
-
- Bernie
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