On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 13:00:19 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
The first Celeron's did not have any cache. However, the Celeron 300a
plus any Celeron > 300MHz all have 128k of on chip cache.
>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.
Pentium Pro came out prior to the Pentium MMX.
Gerald
http://members.home.com/ghenriks
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