Chip Salzenberg on 10 Mar 2004 15:40:04 -0000


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[PLUG] Re: Anybody ever buy one of those Walmart PCs?


According to Gregson Helledy:
> >Uh...well, when I installed RH something told me that the box was an 
> >i686. Is that a P4? Or is there no relationship? Also, why are Celerons 
> >the poor relations of the Intel family? Is it the cache, or lack thereof?
> 
> An i686 is apparently anything Pentium II or faster.

The P6 core is anything from the Pentium Pro, IIRC. 

Celerons are normal cars with tiny wheels.  Yuck.
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Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K
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