Hello Peter!
Tuesday March 31 1998 12:56, Peter Garner wrote to Lynn Nash:
 LN >> The P-II 333MHz is the
 LN >> first chip from intel that returns to the internals of the
 LN >> PPRO. All the previous versions ran the cache at half
 LN >> speed.
 JM>> miserable failure on the 32bit clean pentium pro and why
 JM>> intel were bulldowsed by microsoft into producng a chip that
 JM>> would "make win95 look good" in essance the pentium II's are
 JM>> now inextricable linked to ms win 95 one without the other
 JM>> I have heard a lot of people who upgraded to pentium II's
 JM>> very shortly 'upgraded' from os/2 to ms win95 and started
 JM>> ahving allsorts of problems but that is another story.
 JM>> from my calculations, a pentium II based processor would
 JM>> have to have about twice the clock rate to out gun a pentium
 JM>> pro if all else remains the same.
 PG > What is the deal with the Pentium II vs. Pentium Pro?  I thought
 PG > that the 333 Mhz Pentium II would run 32 bit code (like OS/2) as
 PG > well as a Pentium Pro?  I have just purchased a 333 Mhz Pentium
 PG > II, would I have been better off with a Pentium Pro?  What is
 PG > the highest clock rate on a Pentium Pro?
no, not at the 333 mhz pII this is the only pII worth getting, also the next
generation will have thier internal caching coupled back tot he processors 
buss
speed, the 333 mhz one may actually have this already, so it would actually 
e
better than the 200 mhz ppro .. not my much, but in thiis world on 
ncrimental
difference even a nose in front is concodered good enough.
generally the ppro is the processor to get if yo are building a file server 
r
a unix machine .. the pII[s were designed to be cheap to produce in quantity
for the home desktop market .. they have cut corners and tried new production
techniques. also they have cut the price to compete with others out thier, on
the other hand th eppro has kept its pricetag because it is beng sold as a
server solution will att he attendant publicity cincering performance and
relibaility.
to a home user its not much in the between the two but in a server where it
need to be run come the end of the world or worse my money would be on the
ppro. a processor is much more than the fancy name or the numbers scrached 
into
the ceramic.
ps, i have more money the either brains or ego .. grin.
cheers
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
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