Acknowledgements, Links and Comments

This is a list of the sources I've used, the people who've helped, and tells you my address in case you want to tell me something I didn't know.

Acknowledgements

• Clive Turvey let me suggest things for him to run on his P3 before they were generally available.
• Grzegorz Mazur informed me of the existence of Cyrix EMMX extensions.
• David T Wang told me the release date for the P2/333.
• Wolfe told me some useful details about the Mendocino and Katmai cores, and gave me several useful links.
• Richard Krehbiel gave me details about processes and cache sizes on the various Intel cores.
• Peter Noehrenberg suggested that I add the section about the PPro.
• JC gave me a load of useful information about the future plans of Cyrix and Centaur and Rise

Links

Hardware manufacturers

• Current Intel processors information from Intel; mostly summaries of press releases
• AMD's collection of press releases.
• VIA's CPU home page.

Hardware sites

• Tom Pabst the benchmark man
• Another hardware-reviews site, ran by Anand Lal Shimpi
• Aces Hardware and Real World Technology; good technical articles coupled with rather good discussion boards
• Sharky Extreme - basically a gaming site, but with hardware reviews also.
• Firing Squad - another gaming site, but the first place to get hold of a P3.

Comments?

Please send any comments, particularly factual errors, to me here.