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- From: zstern@adobe.com (Zalman Stern)
- Subject: Re: specks for the intel P5
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.020930.12026@adobe.com>
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- References: <1h1qseINNdi@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 02:09:30 GMT
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- In article <1h1qseINNdi@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West)
- writes:
- > 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
- > --
- > For the humour impaired: Insert a :-) after every third word
- There was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Firday where some
- Intel person claimed the P5 would have a higher SPECfp rating than the
- R4000. You can be the judge of what that means. (If nothing else, its an
- apples and oranges comparison because of the time difference between when
- the chips came out. I gaurantee you they won't be beating an R4400 :-))
-
- There was also an article the Saturday Chronicle detailing Intel's problems
- being able to reliably deliver flash memory chips. It was in sharp contrast
- to the Friday article which promoted Intel as the "rising star of American
- high-tech."
- --
- Zalman Stern zalman@adobe.com (415) 962 3824
- Adobe Systems, 1585 Charleston Rd., POB 7900, Mountain View, CA 94039-7900
- "Yeah. Ask 'em if they'll upgrade my shifters too." Bill Watterson
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