Gene, RE: "Value of PentiumII in servers questioned"
This has been known for a long, long time. I've known it myself for more than a year now <GGG>. Intel did not mean for early P2 to replace Pentium Pro. Pentium II was code named Klamath, and I still have the notebook in which I wrote, while meeting with Intel technical marketing people that "Klamath is for DESKTOPS, a low cost, high volume P6." One thing that makes it low cost is that it has no L2 cache chip in the same package as the processor (which Pentium Pro does).It also never was designed or intended to be used in >2 way multiprocessor configs. To go on further about what I wrote down that day over a year ago, and I'm looking at the notebook right now, "Deschutes will be the next major improvement for the Pentium Pro." So, Intel has followed this roadmap exactly, and, again, they never intended for early P2 to replace the Pentium Pro.
What gets my A**, is why didn't this author know this?
Gene, sorry, didn't mean to shoot the messenger.
Tony |
