>>My motherboard seems like it will run the PIII 500, but it won't do
>>SMP mode, right?
> 
> 
> We had a dual PIII-600 machine at work ages ago, as far as I remember
> all PII and PIII are SMP-capable,

yes, that's true. same is for the PPro. all use the GTL+ bus which
implements MP.

> Intel only decided to castrate them at
> some point in the PIV line.

all Celerons should be kind of castrated, tho some/most of them run in
MP configs.

timo