Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bart Dorsey" <> | Subject | Re: Pentium II Math Bug | Date | Mon, 5 May 1997 15:05:44 -0500 |
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---- From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+/news/lists/linux/kernel@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.Y ALE.EDU> Newsgroups: lists.linux.kernel To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Date: Monday, May 05, 1997 2:32 PM Subject: Re: Pentium II Math Bug
>Rob Hagopian <Rob.Hagopian@vuser.vu.union.edu> writes: >> Check out http://www.x86.org/ after 9:00A PST for details. > >Amazing: > >- the guy there complains about its Pentium-II which he got "before release" > which means that the pentium-II that will get sold will very likely be > different.
Did you happen to notice he says he Pentium Pro does this also?
> >- and don't go see the page about comparison between Pentium-II and K6 > (and others) because the guy has sufficiently little knowledge in processor > to think that processors have to be compared at similar frequencies, > As if you'd an Alpha 21164 to 100Mhz in order to compare it with some POWER2 > processor. Worse yet: the 486DX2-50 would end up being faster than the > 486DX-50 (since they'd be both compared at a speed of 25Mhz which the 486DX2 > would double).
Uh... you obviously don't understand clock multipliers and bus speeds... Take a look at http://sysdoc.pair.com sometime.
Oh and what is this doing on the linux kernel list? Doesn't this list get spammy enough?
P.S. How much do Intel employees make anyway?
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