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I was shopping for a new computer this weekend - and I was told by various
salespeople that the AMD chips had more problems with advanced math calculations
than the Intel chips (i.e., you got more floating point errors, etc.).
Can't prove it by me. That's just what I was told. And since
I could buy a box with an Intel chip for about the same price as a box
with an AMD chip - I stuck with the Intel chip. Robyn
<P>Hinton Clabaugh wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <FONT SIZE=-1>If anyone has been running TS
on an AMD K6 or Cyrix 6x86MX CPU, has it been going well?</FONT><FONT SIZE=-1> </FONT><FONT SIZE=-1>A
few months back Omega warned on this list against using non-Intel CPUs,
but when pressed they didn't really seem to know if there are incompatibilities
with the K6 or 6x86MX. I got the impression they were being overly cautious,
as there had been problems with an earlier generation Cyrix chip. They
said they would test everything, but apparently it's not a priority.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>Thanks
in advance for your comments.</FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE>
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> I was shopping for a new computer this weekend - and I was
> told by various salespeople that the AMD chips had more
> problems with advanced math calculations than the Intel
> chips (i.e., you got more floating point errors, etc.).
With an answer like that, I understand why they're sales people
and not engineers. Always beware of a non-technical person
giving you a technical answer, especially when they sound
authorative!
I wonder if this is true for trading systems sales people too?
Chris Norrie
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