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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:01:14 02/14/00

On February 14, 2000 at 17:51:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>Bob, please. I know there are things that are not worth the trouble to them.
>>Does Cray only make computers with GaAs processors?
>No.  Wrong company.  Seymour left cray to make the cray-3 using gallium.  Cray
>research has stuck with traditional silicon.  Cray computers (Seymour's old
>company) went belly-up a year or so before he was killed in a car crash.  He
>delivered 1/4 of one machine to NCAR.

Oh. Hmmm. I dunno. Maybe GaAs reacts differently to temperature.

>Anything is possible.  However, if it were stable at 1ghz I suspect they would
>be selling it at 1ghz (AMD) rather than 750??

No, it's all marketing right now. AMD can make as many processors as they want
at whatever clock speed they want. It's no coincidence that the Athlon is
running at 850MHz and the Pentium III is at 800MHz. =)

-Tom

Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Dave Gomboc 16:10:50 02/14/00
- Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Tom Kerrigan 16:20:58 02/14/00
  - Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Robert Hyatt 17:38:24 02/14/00
    - Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Tom Kerrigan 19:09:03 02/14/00
      - Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Robert Hyatt 20:02:28 02/14/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Tom Kerrigan 22:19:56 02/14/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Robert Hyatt 06:46:41 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Tom Kerrigan 10:50:22 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Robert Hyatt 14:50:06 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Tom Kerrigan 17:13:13 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Robert Hyatt 20:22:38 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Eugene Nalimov 21:20:57 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Robert Hyatt 06:37:13 02/16/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Eugene Nalimov 18:14:49 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Tom Kerrigan 19:59:15 02/15/00
        
        Moderation: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Dave Gomboc 11:05:11 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Jeremiah Penery 23:36:23 02/14/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Tom Kerrigan 00:30:52 02/15/00
        
        Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Dave Gomboc 23:48:45 02/14/00
      - Re: Athlon 1,1GHz Albert Silver 19:33:22 02/14/00

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