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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:43:12 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 07:12:17, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>It's called progress. Computer manufacturers don't build to specs from 8 years
>ago. Like your memory chips that fail at 75 MHz most of these problems don't
>exist in today's world.

I know this thread has gone on without me, but I wanted to get my $0.02 in about
this comment.

Hardware is _engineered_. If you ask a chip designer how fast his chip will run,
do you think he does a calculation or do you think he pulls a number out of his
hat?

-Tom



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