While the 6x86's integer performance was significantly higher than P5 Pentium's, it's floating point performance was more mediocre — between 2 and 4 times the performance of the 486 FPU per clock cycle ( depending on the operation and precision ).

Additionally, since the 6x86's price encouraged its use in budget systems, performance could drop even further when compared with Pentium systems that were using faster hard drives, video cards, sound cards, and modems.

During the 6x86's development, the majority of applications ( office software as well as games ) performed almost entirely integer operations.

However, the PR rating was not an entirely truthful representation of the 6x86's performance.

Initially Cyrix tried to charge a premium for its extra performance, but the 6x86's math coprocessor was not as fast as that in the Intel Pentium.

With the MII's 83 MHz bus, this resulted in the PCI bus running alarmingly out of spec at 41. 5 MHz.

The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.

Job is blessed once again and lives on another 140 years after the ordeal, living to see his children to the fourth generation and dying peacefully of old age.

The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC timesharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard.

The basic goal of traditional education was to present the knowledge and skills of the old generation to the new generation of students, and to provide students with an environment in which to learn, with little attention ( beyond the classroom teacher ) to whether or not any student ever learns any of the material.

In the end, the old successful generals were replaced by a younger generation considered more loyal by the government in Damascus.

The 1956 commercial was to be remade with the original children, now grown, to forge a link between " the new generation and the old ad ".

Alf ( and to a lesser degree his wife ) represented the old guard, the traditional and conservative attitudes of the older generation.

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the social generation of Boomers as the cohorts born from 1943 to 1960, who were too young to have any personal memory of World War II, but old enough to remember the postwar American High.

The London Times obituary in 1962 described him as an " an angry young man of the generation before they became fashionable ", and who '" remained something of an angry old man to the end ".

The fourth generation competed with the P5 Pentium line, but it was not nearly as widely used as its predecessors, since much of the old 68000 marketplace was either defunct or nearly so ( as was the case with Atari and NeXT ), or converting to newer architectures ( PowerPC for the Macintosh and Amiga, SPARC for Sun, and MIPS for SGI ).

Representative of a generation of left-wingers who criticized the old SFIO Socialist Party, he joined a Trotskyist group, the Internationalist Communist Organization ( OCI ) in the 1960s, before entering the renewed Socialist Party ( PS ) in 1971.

Since such a ship might take thousands of years to reach even nearby stars, the original occupants of a generation ship would grow old and die, leaving their descendants to continue travelling.

Thus, the first generation ship may find a centuries old human colony after its arrival.

About 51 years old at that time, Standish began to relinquish the responsibility of defending the colony to a younger generation.

They were replaced by a new generation that had grown up and been educated under the old and were now to make their mark under the watchful eye of the new emperor.

He is credited with providing a transition phase between the old guard and a new generation of professional politicians.

As new generations seek to define themselves as something apart from the old, they adopt new lingo and slang, allowing a generation to create a sense of division from the previous one.

* Old wives ' tale, a wisdom much like an urban legend, supposedly passed down by old wives to a younger generation

* Al Jolson rerecords his old hits for the soundtrack of his Columbia biopic The Jolson Story, and becomes a superstar to the post-war generation as well

It is credited for saving Pontiac from their dated stigma as producer of the " old lady's car " by creating a design that symbolized a generation of new, younger, more affluent drivers with a need for speed and style.

Between Basel and Breisach, the old river bed carries hardly any water ; almost all water is diverted through the Grand Canal d ' Alsace on the French side, to ensure safe shipping and hydro power generation around the clock.

There was a very important ceremony known as Ituĩka in which the old guard would hand over the reigns of government to the next generation.

A new generation has emerged which, while showing respect for the old traditions, is also willing to think along new lines.

Xerxes was crowned and succeeded his father in October – December 486 BC when he was about 36 years old.

By statehood in 1907, it had 486 inhabitants. Though the original townsite is now inundated by the waters of Kaw Lake, the old town was quite a busy place.

The old terminal had a capacity of 10, 000 passengers ; in 1984, it served 42, 486, and in 1987, 100, 907 passengers.

The age distribution,, in Le Chenit is ; 412 children or 9. 7 % of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 486 teenagers or 11. 4 % are between 10 and 19.

The senior population distribution is 486 people or 9. 2 % of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 357 people or 6. 8 % are between 70 and 79, there are 190 people or 3. 6 % who are between 80 and 89, and there are 36 people or 0. 7 % who are between 90 and 99.

The senior population distribution is 4, 297 people or 11. 1 % of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 2, 670 people or 6. 9 % are between 70 and 79, there are 1, 486 people or 3. 8 % who are 80 and 89, and there are 274 people or 0. 7 % who are 90 and older.

The age distribution,, in Caslano is ; 389 children or 9. 7 % of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 486 teenagers or 12. 2 % are between 10 and 19.

You realize you are getting in the old fogy class.

From 1906 to 1909, Attlee worked as manager of Haileybury House, a charitable club for working class boys in Stepney in the East End of London run by his old school.

The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.

Participants can include children as young as four years old doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, recreational gymnasts of ages 5 and up, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, and world class athletes.

The southern belle is an archetype for a young woman of the American old South upper class.

Instead it now sought to move beyond its old working class base to appeal the full spectrum of potential voters, including the middle class and professionals.

Society moves from stage to stage when the dominant class is displaced by a new emerging class, by overthrowing the " political shell " that enforces the old relations of production no longer corresponding to the new productive forces.

The Ottomans attempted to create peace by dividing Mt Lebanon into a Christian district and a Druze district, but this would merely create geographic powerbases for the warring parties, and it plunged the region back into civil conflict which included not only the sectarian warfare but a Maronite revolt against the Feudal class, which ended in 1858 with the overthrow of the old feudal system of taxes and levies.

The smallest size class probably consisted of individuals that had just begun to fly and were less than one year old.

The second year class represents individuals one to two years old, and the rare third year class is composed of specimens over two years old.

In addition to the old and formal ius civile a new juridical class is created: the ius honorarium, which can be defined as " The law introduced by the magistrates who had the right to promulgate edicts in order to support, supplement or correct the existing law.

When I was nine or ten years old, the assigned reading in the class was “ The Man without a Country ", a short story by Edward Everett Hale.

In a letter to Lord Acton on 11 February 1885, Gladstone criticised Tory Democracy as " demagogism " that " put down pacific, law-respecting, economic elements that ennobled the old Conservatism " but " still, in secret, as obstinately attached as ever to the evil principle of class interests ".

The IWW continued illegally operating with the aim of freeing its class war prisoners and briefly fused with two other radical tendencies – from the old Socialist parties and Trades Halls – to form a larval communist party at the suggestion of the militant revolutionist and Council Communist Adela Pankhurst.

The network class distinctions were removed, and the new system was described as being classless, with respect to the old system, which became known as classful.

Azerbaijan's telephone system is a combination of old Soviet era technology used by Azerbaijani citizens and small-to medium-size commercial establishments, and modern cellular telephones used by an increasing middle class, large commercial ventures, international companies, and most government officials ; the average citizen waits on a 200, 000-person list for telephone service ; Internet and e-mail service are available in all major cities and some remote towns.

This edict paved the way for Justinian to marry Theodora, a former mime actress, and eventually resulted in a major change to the old class distinctions at the Imperial court.

By the 19th century, new commercial groups emerged, and the active social mobility caused the yangban class to expand, resulting in the weakening of the old class system.