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To: John Koligman who wrote (85031)	7/7/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<"Celeron is overkill for the processor, and Linux is free. Who needs SIMD instructions for a file servers?"> <The C2000R can use as many as five Ethernet cards and up to six 9.1GB hard disks, and comes with 1GB of memory.> Pretty strange. Which chipset is going into these Celeron-based servers? I don't know of any chipset meant for Celeron that can support five Ethernet cards, six 9.1GB hard drives, and 1 GB of memory. That sounds like a job for 440GX, yet that's a chipset that doesn't support Celeron because of its 100 MHz bus. I guess Celeron will be used only in the low-end model, the C1200R (as opposed to the C1500R or the C2000R). But even the low-end is starting at $9999. Why use Celeron for that price point, when a dual Pentium III system can work just as well for only $100's more and provides power to spare? That announcement by Compaq is very confusing. Tenchusatsu

To: John Koligman who wrote (85031)	7/7/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

John - Re: "First time I've heard the Celeron mentioned for server use..." Intel announced a low cost Application Specific Server initiative early this year. This seems to be a result of that. I think Intel had good foresight to predict the advent of these cheap servers and with the Celeron and associated chip sets, they are set to support this market in their usual dominating fashion. Paul