[ale] Pentium Pro vs. Pentium II

[Marc A. Torres]

	According to a Intel guy who spoke at the last AUUG meeting
	on Intels next 18month chip schedule:

	The PPro will be discontinued by 2Q98 when the Slot 2 PII come
	in to fill scale production with Cache running same speed as 
	the processor core.

	Intel acked that under non-mmx 32 bit "server" code, the PPro
	is the faster chip.  As intel wants all of the server companies
	switching to Slot 2, they will discontinue the PPro.

	Also by Q2 Intel is supposed to have 4 and 8way compatible PII's.

	FWIW, thats what he said...

	Marc Torres
	marct at mindspring.com


On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Ken Seefried wrote:
> > 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.