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To: Elmer who wrote (35661)	8/8/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572383

Re : "a PII with voltage reduction packaged to fit into an older socket8 " Hmm interesting, indeed. Might be, but if intel is capable of producing Xeon's at 400 MHz, (with their 400 MHz l2 cache), it must be a breeze for intel to produce 300 and 333 MHz cache chips. Also the removal of the mmx core would not be to difficult, because i think intel just took the pII core (ppro core with 7.5 mil. trans), produced it using 0.25 and now has a good selling point to medium-end server/work station's, who do not want to buy the very expansive and relatively unknown Xeon , and rather just slam in the new cpu, and enjoy the speed difference. Intel would be rather foulish if they would sell pII's, with relatively shitty fpu performance compared to ppro, and with HALF speed cache . System managers would hardly notice the difference between a ppro 200 and a pII 300.... If you got some more info on this topic, please keep us informed. GreetZ, Michael da Kota HFWL