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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
cc: Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com>, Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>,
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Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ?
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On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Stephen Roome wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dave Alderman wrote:
> > Does anyone know if the VIA Apollo VP2 is any better?   What about the
> > new AMD CMD640 chipset (which is based on the VP2 - maybe it IS the
> > VP2)?
> 
> The stats on the VP2 look nice (http://sysdoc.pair.com/ has some bench's).
> But I'd be interested also in any SiS powered boards, SiS seem to come 
> out with chipsets which really are better than the competition, but they 
> don't release anything new often enough to be a serious competitor.
> 
> I do like SiS though, they're just not supported under Windows very well, 
> which is oh such a shame.
> 
> Steve Roome.

Hmmm... under Tom's list for DRAM cacheability, he has: "64 or 512MB" for 
the Intel HX, VIA VP-1, and VIA VP-2, but does anyone know why the "or"?