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To: Barry A. Watzman who wrote (36625)	10/17/1997 10:45:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	of 186894

Thanks Barry, I didn't know about those differences between PII and MMX. A couple other things that I'm aware of (but didn't mention) are the "on-the-fly" ECC capabilities of the PII, which the PPro had, but MMX didn't, making the PII acceptable for network servers. I'm not a techie, so all I know is that ECC stands for "Error Correcting Code", and that servers need the added reliability of ECC. Another thing with the Slot One connector is the separate bus from the CPU to main memory. From what I read, right now the advantage of the separate bus is negated by the fact that it runs at 50% the speed of the processor, while MMX processors access main RAM at 100% the speed of the processor. But from what I gather, when the PII is cranked up to 400MHz, we'll have system RAM accessed at 200Mhz on a separate bus. Do you understand this better? I'm a little foggy on the advantages here, although I'm sure they're there.

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