Word: pentium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems absurd that the fate of nations could hang on the sale of a Pentium III chip. "It's an illusion that we can draw a bright line in the sand," says Jeffrey Garten, a Commerce official during Clinton's first term and now dean of Yale's School of Management. "So it's healthy that we have a national debate over what we transfer and what we hold back." Engagement with China rests on scores of such decisions, and virtually no one, not even in the white heat of the Cox report, is seriously calling for Washington to disengage...
...website chat rooms for advice. The good news is that it's not hard to export data if you later decide to switch from one software package to another. But don't try to run these products on an old 486; you'll get the best performance on a Pentium-class machine. And save plenty of room on your hard drive. The better you get at tracing your ancestral past, the more you'll need the space...
What's the difference between Intel's pentium, CELERON AND XEON microprocessors...
...Pentiums are the workhorse chips found in most PCs in the $1,000-to-$2,500 range. The fastest are Pentium IIIs that run at 500 MHz, perfect for 3-D games like the upcoming Quake III. Celerons are discount chips found in many sub-$1,000 PCs. They are cheaper and slower because they have less short-term cache memory. Xeons are Intel's fastest chips (with up to four times the cache of Pentiums) and are used only for corporate servers...
...will the growth of the Internet help. The narrow bandwidth of standard telephone lines serves as a democratizing bottleneck, rendering all processors, regardless of speed, equally slow. Why buy a souped-up superbox loaded with Pentium III power if the on-ramps to the information autobahn are perpetually jammed...