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- From: john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: specks for the intel P5
- Date: 20 Dec 1992 13:02:06 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe) writes:
-
- >This is not quite true. Intel has presented limited P5 details at Hot-Chips
- >and at the Microprocessor Forum. Pentium will be a Superscalar
- >implementation of the X86 instruction set. It is a single integrated CPU -
- >not a RISC chip with a 386 tagged on. It will run 368 and 486 user code as
- >is.
-
- Someone posted some numbers here a while back. A 33MHz external/66MHz internal
- part was claimed to run at 30-40 MIPS. Meaningless enough for you?
- Sounds about right. Superscalar, and they still can't get 1 instruction/cycle.
-
- John West
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