[KLUG Members] Re: Yo! -- Such consumers made Microsoft

[Robert G. Brown]

I believe Bryan Smith on the one hand, and Adma and I on the other hand, are 
talking about two very different things. I am using (and talking about) a 233 
mHz MMX Pentium,which I take to be roughly equivalent to the AMD-K6 of about 
the same vintage and clock speed rating.. In his last message, Bryan essenti-
ally states that when these chips were bleeding edge, Intel had superiority in
that round.  The hardware Adam is using is somewhat more advanced, certainly a
bit faster, but essentailly also something that can now be characterized as
more or less "trailing-edge".

Past is past, now is now. Bryan uses this discussion as a jumping off point 
for a lot of what is current, which is something of a different topic, with
different considerations, and different conclusions. Bryan takes some very
recent points, but IMO errs in projecting our views of past technology (which 
we happen to be using) with what we think is going on now. He errs further by 
making some inappropriate ad hominem remarks, which are rather inappropriate.

I think it is probably a good idea to move the evolving thread to the hardware
list, if it is to continue. Personally, I've seen most of this before in dif-
ferent forms but would like to ask if the notion that the P4 is something of a
wrong move is still current, or has Intel re-engineered the P4 so that it is 
now actaully attractive [??] My understand was that this was not the case, and
that, in general, vendors have not yet fields compilers that generated code to
support well the behavior of this chip....

                                                    Regards,
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