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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
cc: Bryan Seitz <phiber@udel.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Celeron and Celeron ( Mendocino ) kernel patch.
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On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:06:09 -0500, Bryan Seitz <phiber@udel.edu> said:
> 
> > Hi, I was messing around with a new machine the other day when I decided to
> > install
> > FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT.  I've got a celeron 300a in it running at 450Mhz.  Since
> 
> I don't believe it is useful to make any distinction between different
> flavors of Pentium II, since they all (for the time being) share the
> exact instruction-set architecture and feature set.  Just because
> Intel's marketing department wants you to believe something, doesn't
> mean it's true.
> 
Well, they are the same in that respect, but the Pentium II has cache in
the same package, and most Pentium II's aren't overclockable. The celeron
is.

Kenneth Culver
Computer Science Major at the University of Maryland, College Park.



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