On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> To clairify, I did not mean to remove the pentium version. The boxed
> version could have 2 CDs. I don't think that would make Mandrake have to up
> the price very much. If you are using a PIII or Zeon are you loosing that
> much by running PII optimized code?
>
P-II, P-III and Xeon processors all use the same instruction set. The only
difference is the MMX and SSE instructions for optimizing graphics and sound
processing. Hardly anyone uses those special sets anyways.
Thats why the choice is i686 when you go to compile the kernal. That basically
supports anything from the Pentium Pro on up. When you get right down to it,
the P-II, P-III and Xeon processors are nothing more than a Pentium Pro core
with different caching systems and MMX/SSE instructions added on.
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