Hi "Darin Martin" !
On 11/8/99 7:38:54 AM, you wrote:
>You are correct... The P-II/P-III/Celeron/Xeon are all based on the Pentium
>Pro.[snip]
>However, the main instruction set for the CPU remains unchanged since the
>P-Pro came out in late 1995.
Correct.
>Intel's 7th generation processor is supposed to be released 4th quarter
>2000.
They've bounced around a few different release dates, and as always with
Intel, you can't really judge it until its actually released. Expect
probably at least 3Q2000.
>It has been code named Merced for the last 4 years or so..
BING! Wrong. Merced is a different technology (IA-64) that HP is
designing for Intel using some of the HP-PA wizardry. The first chip
in that series seems like it won't be much faster than the 786 chips
due next year...
... which are called Williamette. They'll be Intel's first official
786 chips and will probably have a number of similar tricks to AMD's
Athlon to speed things up yet again.
Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student
http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133
