Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> It puzzles me how this is possible.
> >>
> >> Sure, the Xeon probably has a much bigger cache and a slightly faster
> >> bus to the RAM chips. But is that *all* that makes it faster? Or is
> >> there more to it than that? I have no idea.
> >
> > The Pentium 4 line is notorious ineffecient in it's use of the clock
> > cycles, and each of it's generations just got worst of than the previous
> > one.

> Isn't this roughly the timeframe when AMD, Cyrix and half a dozen others 
> suddenly popped up with compatible chips running at the same clock speed 
> yet delivering massively increased performance, and Intel were all like 
> "oh crap!"?

  You are probably confusing it with the original Pentium. Cyrix and other
competitors were pretty much dead (or at least heavily struggling) by the
time of the P4. The only real competitor left was AMD.

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