Hardware Progress: $397 (fwd)

Rocky McGaugh rocky at atipa.com
Wed Mar 27 14:44:19 PST 2002


On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> 2 relative to clock).  I'd be very surprised if CPU speed "only"
> increases by a factor of 5-6 over four years -- that would be a doubling
> time of around 18 months (at the high side of the range) and we KNOW
> that there will be The Great 64-Bit Crossover in the next year or two
> (see e.g. the AMD "processor roadmap") which will probably be worth most
> of a factor of two alone.
> 
>    rgb

I thought "The Great 64-Bit Crossover" was last year when everyone fled 
the axp's in favor of the AMD's and the P3's?  

:)


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