On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Richard Rauch wrote:

: (My oldest brother is a doctor, not a computer guy.  I haven't (yet) asked
: him if the repair people possibly told him that they were replacing the
: CPU with a Pentium,

Pentium and Pentium II models aren't compatible in that way.  There are
"upgrade" processors to take a Pentium Pro (the first 686-class CPU) to P-II
level, but you can't do that with a plain Pentium system.  At least, I
haven't seen any system (desktop or mobile) capable of using either type of
CPU....

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