Replies to post #63012 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

wbmw,

Not in the beginning. It took years to promote PPro as a viable alternative in the enterprise. Intel couldn't do it overnight. And versus RISC, they had the benefit of huge economies with inexpensive Linux operating systems, vastly less expensive hardware, and huge 3rd party infrastructure.

x86 was in the enterprise for a long time, but mostly on the department and in the small to mid sized companies. The OS of choice in that time frame was of course Novell, with Windows gaining share. Linux in the enterprise is a much more recent phenomenon. Linux started out in web servers on x86.

Joe

[wmbz]

I remember exactly what the performance differences between the K6 and PII were since I owned both. K6 had better integer but the PII had superior floating point. All the benches of the time ( games ! ) used floating point more so the PII got more fps than the K6. K6-2 and K6-3 got even better integer IPC but the PII led the floating point race until K7 showed up and kicked floating point butt. The funny thing is that the K6 series had better integer IPC than the PII and the K7.

C