From:	Mike Loseke <mike@*******.COM>
Subject:	Re: Real-Life Computing ...
Date:	Tue, 26 May 1998 15:58:07 -0600

Thus spake Airwasp:
>
> For anyone wanting grins and giggles ... consider the following ...
>
> Intel is going to begin selling chips to the consumer market sometime in the
> year 2000 ...
>
> Their speed .... 800 MHz ...

They're still a bit behind the competition. IBM, earlier this year,
announced that they have demonstrated the first procesor that can operate
beyond 1GHz. Digital Alpha processors have been over 600MHz (and higher)
for some time now.

http://www.ibm.com/News/1998/02/ls980204.html

However, Intel shipping speeds like this to mass market consumers for
somewhat reasonable prices, is important. The more power on distributed
systems, whatever the processor, will only bring us nearer to the
Matrix-like netowrks of the future. I'm already saving up for a datajack
and an encephalon. :-)

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