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Dave Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:11:14 -0700
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On 10 Jun 99, at 20:26, Eric Wertman wrote:

> I have a general comment about this and one other incorrect speed report on an
> AMD processor. I thought I read somewhere that the speeds listed for these
> processors was "pentium equivalent" and not the actual clock speed. Is this
> correct, or possible in this case?

  Cyrix *labels* their CPUs that way.  AMD did too, briefly, but decided it
was confusing people.


David G

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