[ale] Socket A Processors

[Calvin Harrigan]

Keith Hopkins wrote:

>>On the plus side: "From a hardware and user standpoint, the Socket-A 
>>Semprons were essentially renamed Athlon-XP desktop CPUs." 
>>(Wikipedia:Sempron)
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>Hate to disagree with the all-knowing-wikipedia, but the (sockets-A) 
>sempron is to the XP as the celeron is to the pentium.  More like a 
>duron replacement, except that the sempron family extends into the 
>64-bit world.
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I think wikipedia is right on the technical specs and you are right on 
the marketing.  The sempron came out almost simultaneously with the 64 
bit athlons to replace the duron as the low end AMD.  But the 
specifications were identical to the XP  thoroughbred core.

Calvin...