Why don't you at least tell them you are a guy? I their posts and they are always referring to you as a woman :)

I, like Mr. Zarate, wonder why you bother, although I do like that most of your posts are one liners.

regards,

kate

waitressInGaza (beenthere@donethat.com) on 2/5/03 wrote:
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>José Javier Zarate (jzarate@unav.es) on 2/5/03 wrote:
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>>Dear Mrs. WIG
>>
>>I read frequently your posts at Ace's. Why do you keep fighting so many so cleraly
>>biased people that add so little to knowledge (there are some biased people that
>>adds a lot to knowledge and understanding of a given technology)
>
>well call it a crusade to call a spade a spade but in this case i really did want
>to see the links Peter derives his info from. from what i see he takes all his
>data from one digitimes article. thanks for the point of view =)
>
>
>>
>>Best wishes
>>
>>waitressInGaza (beenthere@donethat.com) on 2/3/03 wrote:
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>>>Bill Todd (billtodd@metrocast.net) on 2/3/03 wrote:
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>>>>Peter Gerassimoff (pgerassi@ticon.net) on 2/3/03 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>...
>>>>
>>>>>FYI, Itanium3 (Madison) is only going to be 1.3GHz for the 6MB version and 1,2GHz
>>>>>for the 3MB version.
>>>>
>>>>Have you told Intel yet? Their public statements are that Madison is going to clock at 1.5 GHz.
>>>>
>>>>YOur predicted SPEC scores are 25% too high. You should multiply
>>>>>them by 80% or SPECint/fp 6MB: 1000/1720 and 3MB: 920/1600.
>>>>>
>>>>>You should also give Opteron up to 2.6 to 2.8GHz by end of this year on PC3200.
>>>>
>>>>Really? Do you have a reference for this? The highest speed I've seen AMD claim
>>>>for any Hammer this year is 2.6 GHz ("2.4 and 2.6 GHz in Q4", IIRC), and since that
>>>>one statement I haven't seen anything beyond 2.4 GHz in Q4 (suggesting that the
>>>>previous statement included 2.6 GHz as a best-case possibility which later started to look overoptimistic).
>>>>
>>>>Furthermore, I've seen no claim that the on-chip memory controller can handle anything faster than PC2700 memory.
>>>>
>>>>>Also the SPEC scores you cite are for 32 bit mode only.
>>>>
>>>>That does seem to be the case, at least if one believes Freb Weber's quoted 1202
>>>>for 32-bit SPECint at 2 GHz. Paul has expressed skepticism that Fred's other claim
>>>>(that the score will improve by 15% - 20% in 64-bit mode) will pan out, because
>>>>he thinks that it will be difficult to get the 64-bit (K8-specific) compilers up
>>>>to the standard set by the 32-bit Intel compiler used to obtain the 1202 score.
>>>>
>>>>Adding 64 bit speed up
>>>>>of 10%
>>>>
>>>>That may either be a bit conservative (based on Fred's statement) or a bit optimistic
>>>>(based on current performance differences between the Intel compiler and, e.g., gcc).
>>>>
>>>>and PC3200 speed up of another 10% (conservative),
>>>>
>>>>Or imaginary (again: reference, please?).
>>>>
>>>>2.0GHz Opteron gets 1440/1400,
>>>>>2.4GHz gets 1650/1600, 2.6GHz gets 1775/1700 and 2.8GHz gets 1900/1800.
>>>>>
>>>>>Given these Opteron has a good chance of beating Itanium3 in SPECfp
>>>>
>>>>Dream on. Opteron won't even beat McKinley when Madison releases, since Opteron
>>>>will still be at 2 GHz (or at most 2.2 GHz if Madison's late and the faster Opteron
>>>>is early). And unless you can substantiate your claim that Madison won't run at
>>>>1.5 GHz, there's no reason to expect Opteron to be able to challenge it in SPECfp
>>>>at anything less than about 3.2 - 3.4 GHz.
>>>>
>>>>and Itanium3
>>>>>may fall behind many other 64 bit CPUs in SPECint
>>>>
>>>>"Many" others? Not Alpha (EV7 is a bit slower than McKinley so even EV79 in 2004
>>>>likely won't quite catch Madison, and EV68 is only about 5% faster than McKinley
>>>>so won't nearly match Madison). Certainly not SPARC or MIPS (they're much slower
>>>>than McKinley). Not PA-RISC either (faster than SPARC and MIPS, but notably slower
>>>>than McKinley). Even POWER4+ will have to bump up its clock rate significantly
>>>>to match Madison (it probably can do so, but whether that will happen before Madison's release is unclear).
>>>>
>>>>as Opteron runs far ahead of all of them.
>>>>
>>>>That one I'll agree with.
>>>>
>>>>- bill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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