Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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> A small thing ti consider also, the fastest production opteron is
> "only" a 1.8gig chip. Wait till the xeon stompers come out this
> fall...

  clock frequency doesn't equal the ability to crunch numbers.  on a
  RISC, this would be a fair assumption.  CISC has by far tossed this
  idea out the window.

  just look at "standard" Athlons compared to P4, or even look at what
  an Alpha at 400Mhz can do.

-- 
Terje

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