Hi Tony!   
      
   12 Oct 2016 08:42, from Tony Langdon -> Richard Menedetter:   
      
    TL> Mine was a 1.2 GHz CPU, IIRC.  I had some stability problems, which   
    TL> underclocking did resolve.  I ran it at around 1 or 1.05 GHz.   
      
   Hmmm ... then it was something else.   
   Maybe they introduced a die shrink and f**ked it up again.   
   AMD always sucked at silicon production.   
   Intel was and is ahead by a big margin there.   
      
    RM>> That was only made possible by the exceptional K7 (Athlon)   
    RM>> microarchitecture. We compared P6 (PPro, P2, P3) to K7 (Athlon)   
    RM>> at university ... The age of P6 showed VERY clearly.   
    TL> Cool.  I was long out of university by then! :)   
    TL> But yes, the AMD 64 bit instrution set was a good development.   
      
   I am a bit younger than most in Fido ;)   
      
   And yes ... that course was very nice.   
   We also had a look at the Itanium, ARM and some other architectures.   
   Many years earlier they built a Z80 based computer of their own (TUMax ->   
   Technical University of Vienna)   
      
    TL>> Intel's "clean slate" 65 bit efforts didn't penetrate the   
    TL>> mainstream like AMDs did.   
    RM>> Well ... the Itanium was never really meant as a P4 replacement.   
    RM>> It was a monster that had to be able to replace PARISC for HP.   
    TL> Yeah, I didn't follow the Itanium much, but was aware it was intended   
    TL> for "big data".   
      
   If you are interested I can dig out the video from Bob that he made at   
   Stanford university.   
   It is REALLY a great talk and gives many insights for the design decisions.   
      
   CU, Ricsi   
      
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