[geeks] Yeow! That is a pricey CPU for a PeeCee!

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:00:59AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:

> I forget which chip it was, but there was one intel chip that was actually *slower* than the chip it replaced for normal, end-user applications (MS-Office, etc.).

That was the PPro.  It was heavily optimised for running 32-bit code, and
at the time there was still lots of 16-bit code around, which ran slower.
Isn't there something similar with the P4?

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