Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:53:16 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: bzdik@yahoo.com, tedm@toybox.placo.com, vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET, lplist@closedsrc.org Cc: jgowdy@home.com, kris@obsecurity.org, mwlist@lanfear.com, freebsd@sysmach.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <F46xj6ZTCVk8xZzBbBd00001287@hotmail.com>
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>on top of that it has 1/4 of transistors P4 has. Prolly sold the rest >on the black market. Remember though that many of the transistors on modern 886 CPUs are used for translating the complex, variable-length, race-considition-prone, ancient x86 instructions into something that can be intelligently processed and then converted back. This is one of the disadvantages of x86 CPUs and probably a big reason why Intel is trying to replace the x86 architecture, which AMD is trying to drag out even longer. Not to say that Intel's new architecture doesn't suck, but it is sure better than x86. Let the poor old thing die! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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