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Not all Pentiums have the floating point calculation problem. It was the
first series of Pentiums. Pentium 75 and above do not have that problem.
The error that was caused in the earlier Pentiums was out to the 11th
decimal place or something like that. So, the main point is later Pentiums
do not have a floating point calculation problem.
AMDs do not have a floating point calculation problem either.
Intel chips are faster when it comes to calculating floating points then AMD
or Cyrix. So for heavy math programs such as CAD or big graphics programs
this will help.
My personal preference is Intel.
Jim Lovejoy
fastgroup@xxxxxxxxxx
Pain is inevitable... Misery is optional.
-Unknown
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Massey <bnm03@xxxxxxx>
To: 'greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Hinton Clabaugh
<clabaugh@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 8:12 PM
Subject: RE: Non-Intel CPU's with TS
>It's the Intel Pentium's (P5's) that have the floating point (advanced
math) problem! Better to go with w/a P6 or P2.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 6:38 PM
>To: Hinton Clabaugh
>Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Non-Intel CPU's with TS
>
> << File: ATT00003.htm >> I was shopping for a new computer this weekend -
and I was
>told by various salespeople that the AMD chips had more
>problems with advanced math calculations than the Intel
>chips (i.e., you got more floating point errors, etc.).
>Can't prove it by me. That's just what I was told. And
>since I could buy a box with an Intel chip for about the
>same price as a box with an AMD chip - I stuck with the
>Intel chip. Robyn
>
>Hinton Clabaugh wrote:
>
>> If anyone has been running TS on an AMD K6 or Cyrix
>> 6x86MX CPU, has it been going well? A few months back
>> Omega warned on this list against using non-Intel CPUs,
>> but when pressed they didn't really seem to know if there
>> are incompatibilities with the K6 or 6x86MX. I got the
>> impression they were being overly cautious, as there had
>> been problems with an earlier generation Cyrix chip. They
>> said they would test everything, but apparently it's not a
>> priority. Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
>
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