Hello Lynn!
Friday April 03 1998 12:37, Lynn Nash wrote to Peter Garner:
 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
 PG>> thought that the 333 Mhz Pentium II would run 32 bit code
 PG>> (like OS/2) as well as a Pentium Pro?  I have just purchased
 PG>> a 333 Mhz Pentium II, would I have been better off with a
 PG>> Pentium Pro?
 PG>> What is the highest clock rate on a Pentium Pro?
 LN > There are two separate issues.
thank you .. for your answer, i am at best a has been 'curcuit board 
engineer',
having done a lot of work on (now old, obselete) motorola eval boards.
i knew i got in over my head with this one but couldn't find a 'gracefully
elegant' way of extracting myself.
i don have some old clients who from time to time come to ask for advice then
tell me what i shouuld have said, that is they want me to rubberstamp thier 
ego
based purchasing desisions .. could i use yor post unedited as a rough guide 
to
a 'why its not such a good idea' or words to that effect, maybe, 'this is 
hat
the diferences are' sort of thing.
as intel and microsoft goes thier merry way and i too become so far out dated
as to be obviously obselete they (the fromer clients) will inturn leave me
alone, that is out of thier silly little games .. not so grin.
your post reminded me of my old days as head of the tech support team, damn i
miss that, the excitment of a new project, the rush when you solve yet 
nother
microsoft 'black screen of death' novell lockup. the chase, the hunt, the 
night
after nightmares of the latest network datastorm .. we didn't have too many 
f
those we used banyan vines supported by netware intermediaries and local
server peer farms .. those were the days even the lotus notes servers wer 
s/2
boxes.
regards
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
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