Hi Tony!

12 Oct 2016 08:42, from Tony Langdon -> Richard Menedetter:

 TL> Mine was a 1.2 GHz CPU, IIRC.  I had some stability problems, which
 TL> underclocking did resolve.  I ran it at around 1 or 1.05 GHz.

Hmmm ... then it was something else.
Maybe they introduced a die shrink and f**ked it up again.
AMD always sucked at silicon production.
Intel was and is ahead by a big margin there.

 RM>> That was only made possible by the exceptional K7 (Athlon)
 RM>> microarchitecture. We compared P6 (PPro, P2, P3) to K7 (Athlon)
 RM>> at university ... The age of P6 showed VERY clearly.
 TL> Cool.  I was long out of university by then! :)
 TL> But yes, the AMD 64 bit instrution set was a good development.

I am a bit younger than most in Fido ;)

And yes ... that course was very nice.
We also had a look at the Itanium, ARM and some other architectures.
Many years earlier they built a Z80 based computer of their own (TUMax
-> Technical University of Vienna)

 TL>> Intel's "clean slate" 65 bit efforts didn't penetrate the
 TL>> mainstream like AMDs did.
 RM>> Well ... the Itanium was never really meant as a P4 replacement.
 RM>> It was a monster that had to be able to replace PARISC for HP.
 TL> Yeah, I didn't follow the Itanium much, but was aware it was intended
 TL> for "big data".

If you are interested I can dig out the video from Bob that he made at
Stanford university.
It is REALLY a great talk and gives many insights for the design decisions.

CU, Ricsi

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