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To: Maxwell who wrote (20615)	9/3/1997 12:36:00 AM
From: Time Traveler	of 1576313

Maxwell, I finally got my Compaq P-II Deskpro system the day after labor day. To my terrible disappoint, no NT was installed due to ignorant censorship by our IS department. Adding insult to injury, I found the obsolete Win95a with FAT-16 on the magnificent 4GB SCSI hard drive. The damage has to be reversed, of course. This evening I had to convert the whole system to run under WIn95b with FAT-32. Well, Excel came exceeding fast on the PII-266 system. Despite all the trouble I had initially, I am going to enjoy this superb computer for the next three years. Just for the curiosity, the P-II was mounted horizontally, rather than vertically, with a huge heat-sink. The heat-sink itself was rather painful to touch with my bare finger. This illustrates a very important design constraint to the development of CPUs, power dissipation must be considered even more critically than the previous generations. P-II's and P-Pro's programmable Vcc is going to play a major role in the following-on generation of processors which Socket 7 CPUs lack! John.

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