Re: Apple and the Holy War

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Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:

>Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> 
>> ...yawm.... personally I've lost interest in this speed
>> competition.  Todays processors are much faster than
>> what I need anyway....
>
>To bring the Athlon's speed into perspective. It has a 200 mhz
>bus speed unlike the Pentium III's 100 mhz and the Celeron's
>66 mhz speeds. This accounts for the crisp response from an
>Athlon equipped CPU.

Yes.  The PowerPC G4 also runs on a 100Mhz bus speed
which is why the Athlon has such a huge advantage.

>Another problem, it is not an upgrade
>item unless most of your parts are pretty new. AMD has only
>certified a few motherboards and power supply systems for
>the Athlon. After working with them on several systems, I
>like the cpu but for the customer, I tell them to expect to
>buy a new computer.

But it is worth noting that this is exactly where the Athlon
is aimed.  For us old Apple II users, we'd probably prefer
to build the computer from parts, but there are name brand
Athlon systems worth taking a look at for the average
customer. Compaq has a 1Ghz Athlon system, for example.
This, I expect would be of great interest to those who need
the power but don't want to search out and assemble the
components.

>But we are seriously getting off topic here. So I will
>say this. I test ran Kegs (Linux GS emulator) on my son's
>850 mhz Athlon and it was awesome compared to my AMD 
>K62-500.

350Mhz difference + greater L1 cache + high speed L2
cache + newer architecture + 200Mhz front bus.  What
did you expect?  ;-)