-=> Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> It was an Athalon, if I recall.

 RM> Really?

Yep, and I remember in the end having to underclock it slightly to improve
stability, which did make a big improvement.

 RM> I had a second gen Athlon (with integrated L2 cache as opposed to have
 RM> it on a slot form factor) and it actually was one of the best CPUs I
 RM> ever had. (together with a dual PPro that I bought cheap from my
 RM> university) It was the reason that Intel developed the P4.
 RM> There is a great talk of Bob Colwell about it. (He was the lead
 RM> developer of the Pentium Pro, and left Intel when the P4 was followed)

I had heard lots of good things about the Athalon, which is why I went down
that route, but for my use scenario, it didn't live up to expectations.  It was
an OK system, but not as good as I had hoped.  The P4 was another CPU I wasn't
a big fan of, for different reasons.  The P4 system I ran (still have it) was
rock solid, and hyperthreading did give it a little performance kick, but it
sucked power like it was going out of fashion.  

One thing AMD did do right was developing the 64 bit instruction set we know
and love today. :)  Intel's "clean slate" 65 bit efforts didn't penetrate the
mainstream like AMDs did.

 RM> The I/O of the Raspberries is awful.

Yes, that is a known issue, and one I've kept in mind, so don't put a Pi into a
situation demanding high I/O performance.  It's simply not designed for that.

 RM> But they are indeed nice little computers.
 RM> I went from a number of 1bs to the 3b and left out 2 ;)

Yeah, I love the Pi.  Have 1B and 2 here. :)


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