At 14:00 1998-06-18 PDT, you wrote:
>One of those 533MHz (?) DEC Alphas or even a 400MHz Pentium-II is sort
>of mind-bogglingly close to those 1ns/instruction numbers (if only in
>a pipelined statistical sort of way.)
>
>BillW

But how many clock cycled per instruction do they really execute?

P2 is only 66MHz bus, anyway, right? And 100MHz are coming, but they need
to pass both data and instruction on that bus (unless in internal cache)
/Morgan

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