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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Duncan Burch" <duncanburch AT nospam DOT usa DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:14:34 +0000
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Subject: Re: Optimizations
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"Duncan Burch" <duncanburch AT nospam DOT usa DOT net> wrote:

> >> The fact that people think that a Pentium II 400MHz processor is
> >> *needed* for any software today is an insult to all the programmers
> >> out there for writing their software that way.  Sure, there are some
> >> tasks that take advantage of the faster CPU (3D video games,
> >> rendering, simulations, etc) but 95% of your need for a faster CPU is
> >> to support *bloat*.
> >>
> Slighly off topic, but did you know that when intel released their new
> pricing policy, they said that their objective would be to offset the
> bloatedness of ms's software?

"In fact, Intel is becoming desperate to find new tasks that can require 
users to buy faster processors. It's hard, if not impossible, to find an 
everyday office application that can obsolete a 200-MHz Pentium uP." 

EDN Magazine, July 16, 1998 page 53

The article talks about the new standards to move modems to the motherboard 
using the main CPU to make the modem tasks instead of a DSP. Using it and 
software wavetables a 400MHz PII will be needed for silly stuff like Office 
99 running with W98.

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