-=> Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    TL> It was an Athalon, if I recall.   
      
    RM> Really?   
      
   Yep, and I remember in the end having to underclock it slightly to improve   
   stability, which did make a big improvement.   
      
    RM> I had a second gen Athlon (with integrated L2 cache as opposed to have   
    RM> it on a slot form factor) and it actually was one of the best CPUs I   
    RM> ever had. (together with a dual PPro that I bought cheap from my   
    RM> university) It was the reason that Intel developed the P4.   
    RM> There is a great talk of Bob Colwell about it. (He was the lead   
    RM> developer of the Pentium Pro, and left Intel when the P4 was followed)   
      
   I had heard lots of good things about the Athalon, which is why I went down   
   that route, but for my use scenario, it didn't live up to expectations.  It was   
   an OK system, but not as good as I had hoped.  The P4 was another CPU I wasn't   
   a big fan of, for different reasons.  The P4 system I ran (still have it) was   
   rock solid, and hyperthreading did give it a little performance kick, but it   
   sucked power like it was going out of fashion.     
      
   One thing AMD did do right was developing the 64 bit instruction set we know   
   and love today. :)  Intel's "clean slate" 65 bit efforts didn't penetrate the   
   mainstream like AMDs did.   
      
    RM> The I/O of the Raspberries is awful.   
      
   Yes, that is a known issue, and one I've kept in mind, so don't put a Pi into a   
   situation demanding high I/O performance.  It's simply not designed for that.   
      
    RM> But they are indeed nice little computers.   
    RM> I went from a number of 1bs to the 3b and left out 2 ;)   
      
   Yeah, I love the Pi.  Have 1B and 2 here. :)   
      
      
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