Intel has the best track record of any company in the personal computer industry. No one can match its record of consistent progress and performance.
The Pentium, with its two integer pipelines, advanced branch-prediction hardware, and sophisticated cache design, doubles the performance of the 486DX2-66 for integer operations, while its phenomenal FPU outdoes a 486's FPU by a factor of 4. More important, the Pentium reached this performance level without sacrificing compatibility with its immense software base.
Pentium gives pause to those who say that the 80x86 architecture can't compete against pure RISC designs. Intel has shown what you can do with intelligent design and hard work. The Pentium designers didn't have the luxury of starting from scratch, which makes their achievement all the more noteworthy. And despite all the hoopla
about RISC performance, do you think for a moment that, if given the chance, any of the RISC vendors would fail to trade places with Intel?
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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