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Subject: Re: SMP for pennies and a no-brainer to use ...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 18:09:38 02/18/00

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On February 18, 2000 at 18:34:11, Dann Corbit wrote:

>[snip]
>Look here (for instance):
>http://www.gateway.com/prod/cp_alr7200_Config.shtml
>
>$1640+$1049 = $2689 gives you a dual PIII 600 MHz machine.
>
>You should get about the same performance as a 1000 MHz machine (20% SMP loss).
>
>Multiple CPU's are the wave of the future.  Surf it baby.  Hang ten.

Yeah, that's still pretty expensive in my book.

I think Intel really needs to start putting more than one CPU on a die. Which
would you rather have, a 1.5GHz Willamette with a 20 stage pipeline burning a
hole in your motherboard, or several Pentium II's on one little chip?

-Tom



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