Re: [tlug] Is Prime PC a good enough place to buy a PC

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> I'll admit that there's a perceptible difference between a 450MHz P2
> and a 2.4GHz Athlon, but the Athlon box also has 1GB RAM where the P2
> has 256MB, and a 133MHz disk controller where the P2 has a 33MHz
> legacy bus.  (I don't have the controller cache size offhand, but that
> matters a lot, too.)
>  

This is OT, but I'm curious about a hardware question that I've been 
wondering about.  I have a P-III 450MHz, and I was wondering what the 
highest clock speed of the P-II's was.  Was it 450, 500, or...?  The 
last 486 was 100MHz I think, and the first Pentium-I was 90MHz (I 
think).  Was there a similar overlap with P-II's and P-III's?  
Incidentally, I noticed a sharp increase in usable performance when 
going from a P-II 350 to a P-III 450, much more than the 100MHz should 
have generated.  According to a friend of mine (I haven't properly 
researched it), the design of the P-III does a much better job of 
managing memory than the P-II?.

Lyle