Re: Mersenne: P4 speed and implications thereof

[Jud McCranie]

At 05:58 PM 2/11/2001 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:

> > Pentium 60 MHz -> 200? MHz factor of 3.3
>     P55c (mmx) hit 233MHz, I believe, for almost 4X

Was P55c for notebooks?  the first desktop Pentiums were 60 MHz.

>P6 architecture (which includes PPro, P2 and P3),
>     166 - 1GHz+ (factor of 6+)

But individually they didn't scale that much.

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