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To: Steve Porter who wrote (50629)3/17/1998 3:02:00 AM
From: Jeff Fox  Read Replies (3) of 186894
 
Steve re: Celeron

Interesting to see if this is true. In the mean time pardon me if I chose to NOT pass on this rumor. I can very well make up my own rumors thank you.

As for Celeron - It is a part without L2 cache that competes fine against K6 without L2 cache. But why Celeron? A chance to sell PII at basement prices. The Celeron saves bucks by the cost of the cache parts. By architecture the PII requires a different module to change L2 cache size whereas for the the K6 the L2 is a motherboard deletion.

You and I might not like it, but there is a market at the low end that just does not understand the role of L2 cache and won't pay for it.

With a less than elegant phrasing - Ted Waitt, Gateway 2000 CEO said it,

"Megahertz sells - everything else smells".

Jeff
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