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Re: non-pentium processors

Dave Martindale
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:10:30 -0700

>Has anybody tried AMD/Celeron/K6 and had good results?
>If so, why should anyone pay pentium prices?

It's my impression that Pentium floating-point performance is still better
than the non-Intel competitors. My wife sometimes fires up simulation jobs
in Matlab that run for hours - mostly matrix arithmetic, probably all
floating point. That would be a good reason to care about FP performance.

Dave