On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 07:41:25PM -0500, Tommy Lakofski wrote: > > The Pentium II is just a Pro with a different (anticompetitive ;) mounting > > and different (cheaper) L2 caching (AFAIK). Choose 'Pentium Pro' in the > > kernel compile configuration. > > Surely their are architectural improvements too. Also, the PII is running > 233MHz with talk of 266 or 300 (or maybe they are already here); PPro > doesn't go that fast?
I don't think there was anything all that major as far as architecture goes, except for the addition of MMX extensions. The 1/2 processor speed cache allowed them to go faster than 200MHz -- the sychronous on-chip cache of the Pro was stopping it going any faster because of the expense of 233+MHz SRAM. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
