Jim, You are missing the main point of the Intel forum, they are
trying to move their entire line, across all spectrum of users,
high to low end, onto the P6 (Pentium II) microarchitecture. Part
of this strategy is to migrate all PCs to the Slot 1 or higher
design, thereby making the Slot 7 motherboards obsolete. This
leapfrogs the Pentium, but in the process makes the K6 and Cyrix
chip yesterday's doo doo. Whereas, if you buy a P II Covington,
and you have a few more bucks after getting hooked on your first PC,
you can upgrade to a higher level chip with the same motherboard.
Lo and behold, a second profit for Intel. There may be other
reasons as well for this strategy, such as agreements with MSFT
etc. about architecture standards for the next operating system
release, or other software hardware considerations. All in all,
there are also economies of scale in a modular system where you
add this or that to the same basis system.
Regards, David S.
Long on Intel (and Iomega too) |
