>A dinosaur in the year 2002  would be anything under a 150mhz  bus speed.
>And I think that includes about anything apple makes.  As far as I know, all
>I have to do is add a little G4 processor to my zif socket  and Ill have
>virtually the same computer as a G4 that some are still making payments on
>=)   At least until Apple came out with the 133mhz G4's  all the other G4's
>under it G4/450 on down are the same speed as our dinosaur B&W's  with
>faster processors =)

Um, no. I just built a system with a 100MHz bus. And it runs the top P-III.

>On another note.......... ever notice that the powerbook 250 G3  has a
>faster bus speed than the next 5 or six  models that came after it...up to
>the G3/400       they went from something like 88mhz  back down to the apple
>norm of the time    66mhz  for their next 5 models.   wonder why.

That's due to the type of board being used, the absence of an L2 
cache and other reasons.

The Pismo's were G4 boards.

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