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#78691From: Richard J. SmithJan 24, 1994 4:39 PM

Chuck: One thing you failed to mention was the price difference I can buy two, almost two Microns for the price of a DEC, 32megs ram and 2gig SCSI2 hd . You can't beat Micron for memory. and 3ds needs all it can get. Also I belive most of the support for the AXP 21066 are contained in the Processor itself,( no need for support chips unlike 80×86 architecture) that is why DECXL'S can be fully upgraded. Why all the fuss about the AXP untill we know the direction of things to come for certain. What about the new M1 chip from Cyrix it is superscalar without recompilation and might be out this year!

#78704From: James M. MurphyJan 24, 1994 5:09 PM

Richard, >> One thing you failed to mention was the price difference I can buy two, almost two Microns for the price of a DEC, << That's another reason NOT to buy the DEC for Pentium reasons. Unless you really like spending more money than you have too.<g> >> What about the new M1 chip from Cyrix it is superscalar without recompilation and might be out this year! << I hadn't heard about this Chipset. Sounds Interesting…Do you have any more information about this? Murph'

#78715From: Richard J. SmithJan 24, 1994 5:49 PM

James: Funny you should mention that, Yes I have a little more info on the M1 unfortunitly Cyrix is not saying much. I don't know, and they wont say if they have first silicon, but they say it will run nonrecompiled code 90 percent as fast as opposed to the pentium's 70 percent. Everything is still sketchey at this point but it should be fun to see what happens, IMHO one company should not have a strangle hold on CPU's or OS's.

#78898From: James M. MurphyJan 25, 1994 12:40 PM

>> From what I understand (as of December) the M1 chip is inferior in floating point performance to the Pentium, so recompiled or not, it's BS as far as FPU intensive stuff is concerned, and the AXP blows away the Pentium there. Obviously the AXP is useless for 3DS right now, but what about the future? I'm thinking about the gamble. John Tissavary (La Luna cie) << I take it you caught this message from John T. Anyone have anymore real good feedback on this? Murph'

#78973From: John TissavaryJan 25, 1994 7:11 PM

I got the info on the M1's fpu performance from a December (I think) issue of BYTE. I don't have the mag anymore, so I can't quote anything from it, but I was really excited about the M1 until I read the fpu part. John Tissavary (La Luna cie)

#78794From: John TissavaryJan 24, 1994 11:40 PM

From what I understand (as of December) the M1 chip is inferior in floating point performance to the Pentium, so recompiled or not, it's BS as far as FPU intensive stuff is concerned, and the AXP blows away the Pentium there. Obviously the AXP is useless for 3DS right now, but what about the future? I'm thinking about the gamble.