From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 10:53:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f46.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5BB37B43C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:53:17 -0700 Received: from 64.20.170.39 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:53:16 GMT X-Originating-IP: [64.20.170.39] From: "Charles Burns" 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 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:53:16 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Apr 2001 17:53:17.0029 (UTC) FILETIME=[9CD99150:01C0C8F9] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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