Subject: Re: MP success
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-smp
Date: 03/13/2003 13:35:20
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:25:12PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> What I got was a Dell Precision 610 with 2 450 Mhz PII Xeon chips and 512 mem.
[...]
> The only oddity is that NetBSD thinks they are PIII processors.

That's because they are :-) "Xeon" has been the name for the high-end
Intel CPUs since the Pentium III days. So, originally they were high-end
Pentium IIIs, now they are high-end Pentium 4s.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                    fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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