[rescue] Recycled P4 machines - Re: Fixed LCD's?

[Andrew Jones]

On 02/13/2014 08:23 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
> On 13/02/14 8:14 PM, Peter Corlett wro
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>> The Pentium 4 is a very inefficient architecture
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> Well, now, I didn't say the state of the art hadn't moved on :-)
>

It was grotesquely inefficient even by the standards of the day.  The 
final-generation P3s were roughly as fast as their contemporary P4 
counterparts despite being a dated design and just over half the clock rate.

Netburst was a sad era for Intel.