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Re: OT: recycling old computers [was Re: ASUS Baby AT Dual CPUmotherboard]

Robin Johnson (robbat2@home.com)
Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:49:35 -0700

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Brian Edmonds wrote:
> about 10GHz of 486 processing power, or 100 486DX2/100 machines.
Since when were there DX2/100? It was DX4/100 last time i checked...
 
> Or from a different vantage point, a P2 processor does about three times
> as much work per clock cycle as a 486 does. A P3 isn't a significantly
> different core architecture, so it should be similar.
Properly written code to take advantage of the SIMD etc, can make a significent
difference too. Hell, just coding written to fit the pipeline more closely can
see some improvement on a pentium chip over a 486.

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