The Pentium II systems should not be that much more expensive. Note that the
chips themselves have fallen drastically in price within the last few months,
and now only cost 10 or 20 percent more than their predecessors.
See
http://www.pricewatch.com/
To illustrate these price differences.
- Jonathan
Jonathan Epstein epstein@@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
National Center for Biotechnology Information *NEW* Phone: (301)435-5756
National Library of Medicine Building 38A, Room 8N805
National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
> From owner-voice-users@@shell.flinet.com Mon Jan 5 11:38:47 1998
> X-Authentication-Warning: shell.flinet.com: pbstaff set sender to
voice-users-owner@@voicerecognition.com using -f
> From: "G.Wexler -Geoff Wexler" <G.Wexler@@open.ac.uk>
> To: Brooks Davies <Brooks@@concentric.net>,
owner-voice-users <owner-voice-users@@shell.flinet.com>,
voice-users <voice-users@@voicerecognition.com>
> Subject: Re: TX chipset and voice applications
> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 98 16:28:00 GMT
>
>
> Dear All,
> I am concerned about the message below which asserts that a TX chipset
> is unsuitable for a really efficient VR system. The local UK supplier has
> infromed me
> that:
> (a) He does not supply anything else.
> (b) That Pentium processors such as the P200 do not come with anything else.
> (c) That the Pentium 2 processor (much more expensive) does come with
> something else.
>
> So what is the true position ? Is the Pentium 200 processor already out of
> date ?
> i.e not ideal for VR. Is the combination P200/ TX chipset OK ?
> many thanks,
>
> Geoff Wexler.
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: owner-voice-users
> To: Brooks Davies; voice-users
> Subject: Re: FPU, Cyrix and voice applications
> Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 10:45PM
>
> > Hello. ........
>
>
>
> I think it is. But what concerns me more about your mail is, that you
> must be shure not to buy a motherboard with a TX chipset, as those
> boards cannot cache more than 64 megs of memory. And youll probably need
> more than 64 MB to do real good voice recognition..
>
> Ciao,
> Nico
>
> -----------
> Nicolai Richter, Giessener Str. 51, 35396 Giessen.
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