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Subject: Re: Celeron and Pentium Pro / Same ??? From: Eric Sisler <esisler@westminster.lib.co.us> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 13:00:19 -0700 Jon Knews <technews@hqmall.com> >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. 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. ===