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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: Pentium II?
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, FreeBSD Mailing List wrote:

> With the same cash is important. P2 boards will be more expensive, along 
> with the chips.

  Really, I find that PII/266 chips are cheaper than the PPro/200 w/512k
cache?

> > > (socket 8?) is doomed too, as Intel will not be developing it further (a
> > > 233mhz version would be nice).  The Pentium MMX is going to max at 233,
> > > before being put out to pasture.  So, every option is "doomed"...
> 
> ZIF architecture is being promoted heavily by AMD, Cyrix, etc. The new 
> Socket 7 motherboards we carry go up to 363MHz (66 x 5.5) and above 
> (83MHZ x 4.5). I expect ZIF-8 solutions to be available soon from 
> competitive vendors.

  AMD, Cyrix.  Ugh...

...
> Our custmoers who know almost all go with Pro.

  Know what?  That the PPro is dead, and likely be discontinued in less
than a year?

> Check out http://www.atipa.com/pentium2.shtml for additional reference.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 

Tom