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From: Joe Angell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: PowerPCs and Lightwave?
To: Mark Thompson <[e-mail]>
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> And as far as the P6 is concerned, the only thing it has going for it is
> some nice design for SMP. But its much touted performance is a big yawn.
> Intel is besides themselves spewing large specint numbers, but they quitely
> avoid talking about its truely dismal floating point, which is what us
> animators really count on. Floating point is what makes the Alpha so
> attractive, even though its such an expensive, watt-wasting pig.

Thanks, Mark.  What do you think of the HP PA chips?  I've heard almost
nothing about them except that ESCOM will either use HP PA chips or PPCs
in the new Amigas.  Just wondering how they stack up to the rest (I hear
they're also designed for multi-processor enivronments).  Thanks...

-- Joe
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