Re: Help: Need Advise for a new P.C.

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From: Thomas Hong
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 00:00

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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Stephen Heaslip wrote:

> >>(notice that 90, 120, 150 and 180 are all divisible by 60)
> 
> >Time for some new batteries in your calculator... either that or it's
> >time to recall some more P5s! :-)
> 
> Maybe he did the math on one of those old Pentiums with the floating point
> bug...

	Nope nope--  They are all indeed divisible by 60, and it's not 
ROCKET SCIENCE.

Pentium clock rates:

	90mHz CPU divided by 60mHz processor bus = 1.5 clocking ratio.
	120mHz CPU / 60mHz processor bus = 2.0 clock ratio (clock doubled)
	150mHz CPU / 60mHz processor bus = 2.5 clock ratio
	180mHz CPU / 60mHz processor bus = 3.0 clock ratio (clock tripled)

	THIS IS THE SAME CLOCK DIVIDER (hint hint) TECHNOLOGY USED IN
INTEL'S CLOCK-DOUBLED AND CLOCK-TRIPLED 486s.  Those who doubt what I
wrote, email Intel at their web site and ask them for their Pentium 
processor handbook.

TRH

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