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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (183681)	3/6/2006 1:38:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Yup, mostly bigger cache, and bigger marketing budget. Also AMD didn't have server maker's trust big then. Tim

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (183681)	3/6/2006 1:54:50 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

"The PP came out before 1995. and the PII and PIII "xeons" consisted of exactly what that would make them "servers"? :)) Bigger catch? Bigger marketing budget? :))" Yes, PP came and paved the road for x86 servers, to start. And yes, Xeon editions used to have up to 2MB cache, which is really helpful in server workloads. Bigger marketing budget is always a plus. More importantly, Xeons have special chipset support (ECC and else), and a pack of OEMs with good qualification plans for RAS. And more, Xeon servers could be made as 2P, 4P , and more, while K7 Atlons had no support for multiprocessing until much later. -Ali