[ale] Pentium Pro vs. Pentium II

[Ken Seefried]

Geoffrey Myers wrote:

> Jason Boyles wrote:
> >
> > Pentium Pro thoughts:
> >
> >         The Ppro has been discontinued, so maybe you can find it
> cheap.
>
> Is this true?  The Pentium pro has been discontinued?
>

No, it's not.  The PPro is still in production, and a new version of the
chiphas been released recently (a PPro 200MHz with 1MB cache).

The word is, however, that this is the last PPro chip, and the series
will
be retired in the next few years.

FWIW, I find the PPro to be a wonderful performer.  It is, MHz-per-MHz,
a better performer than the PII on most jobs I've tried.

And it flat runs the hell out of Linux.

- Ken