From ccl@www.ccl.net Fri Mar 27 11:20:33 1998 Received: from ccl.net for ccl@www.ccl.net by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/950822.1) id KAA12228; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:52:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from cliff.acs.oakland.edu (cliff.acs.oakland.edu [141.210.10.111]) by ccl.net (8.8.6/8.8.6/OSC 1.1) with ESMTP id KAA03964 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:52:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from ouchem.chem.oakland.edu (ouchem.chem.oakland.edu [141.210.108.5]) by cliff.acs.oakland.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15856 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:52:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by ouchem.chem.oakland.edu; id AA07421; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:50:01 -0500 From: "Brent H. Besler" Message-Id: <9803271550.AA07421@ouchem.chem.oakland.edu> Subject: A General Statement about Non-Intel x86 Processors To: chemistry@ccl.net Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:50:01 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think it is accurate to make the general statement that the AMD and Cyrix x86 processors cripple the floating point speed to enhance the integer and other instruction speed. If the goal is floating point calculation speed, I would go with a Pentium II.