From the San Francisco Chronicle: As expected, the Santa Clara-based company yesterday announced initial shipments of Pentiums to... \... For example, Pentium cannot achieve maximum performance unless customers buy new versions of software tuned to take advantage of the chips's design. Intel disclosed yesterday that unmodified programs run about 70 percent faster on Pentium than on the fastest version of Intel's existing 486 chip. When modified, using a process called compilation, many programs run two times faster...
(From the "Rest" of RHF)