Subject: Re: wintel pentium IV
To: Dan Melomedman <dmelomed@devonitnet.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/05/2001 21:36:13 
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:34:44PM +0000, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> It's not worth buying for most of the applications, as PIII and Athlon 
> outperform it at a cheaper cost. It's worth buying for some specialty fp 
> applications. The chip is mostly a scam.

I've heard that Athlon is faster in fp than P4.  What's the truth? :)

  -jm