Jon Knews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I have a Celeron 500 and when I boot the system optimized for a Pentium II
>speed computer (assume that doesn't make a diff if rpm is compiled for
i386, I
>understand). But I did previously see some sw or whatever that basically
>saw my Celeron as a Pentium Pro also. So is that what happened to the
>Pentium Pro? It got renamed and resold as Celeron???? On what level does
>the Pro sit, somewhere between Pentium and PII ? or somewhere
>above a PII but less than PIII ? Just out of curiousity.
I *believe* the Pentium Pro is basically a PII without the MMX
instructions, but I have been known to be wrong before. ;-)
AFAIK the PPro and Celeron aren't the same in that the PPro has onboard
cache (the Celeron doesn't) and the Celeron has MMX but the PPro doesn't.
I *think* the PPro was supposed to be for servers since they don't really
need MMX. I don't think Intel makes it anymore either.
-Eric
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