[SunRescue] are Ultra CPUs really this expensive?

[Mike Nicewonger]

Bwahhahhahahaha!!!

Very funny Pat!

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Giagnocavo" <a222 at redrose.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] are Ultra CPUs really this expensive?


> on 1/3/2001 11:09 PM, Dave McGuire at mcguire at neurotica.com wrote:
>
> > Remember, these processors actually *do* something with their
> > high-speed clocks, unlike the fifty-cycles-just-to-fart Intel crap.
>
> I think that is pretty unfair to Intel chips; the new SIMD instructions in
> the P-III allow multiple farts in parallel; after a 25-cycle setup time
> (opcode BNZ , I think), Intel chips will issue one fart per 10 cycles.
>
> Interspersing different values will allow for various "music" to be
> produced, from "motorcycle on small Italian village side street" to "Texas
> chili massacre" to the popular "A-B-C's" .
>
> :-)
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick
>
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