| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2928.1 | 2001 uses Pentium Pro cpu | CPCOD::CODY | | Mon May 19 1997 11:45 | 7 |
| I have that workstation it uses the Pentium Pro chip not the Pentium
chip. Now I believe the difference is the Pro chip is a true 32 bit
chip and running software with 16 bit code such as Win95 slows the
system. If your customer needs windows 95 instead of NT then they
should use a non-pro cpu.
PJ
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| 2928.2 | | LEFTY::CWILLIAMS | CD or not CD, that's the question | Mon May 19 1997 12:10 | 9 |
| But it's still faster than a standard Pentium. A good portion of WIN95
is 32 bit, as are many of the applications. I'd take a 200 MHz PPRO any
day over a 200 MHz Pentium.... for anything except DOS based games.
Even there, it's as fast as a P166... you'll never notice.
No reason not to use it, unless there's some other incompatibility.
Chris
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| 2928.3 | | levers.dechub.lkg.dec.com::GENOVA | | Mon May 19 1997 13:15 | 10 |
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Customers should be buying Pentium-Pros for future upgrading, either to
NT4.0 or NT5.0, from Win95. The Pentium 200s are only about $400
cheaper than a similiarly equipped Pentium Pro 200, and the Pro has a
much (1 year or more) longer time before it will be "slow", etc.
Only my opinion, but I wouldn't throw good money after bad, the
pentiums are getting very long toothed.
/art
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| 2928.4 | | PCBUOA::KRATZ | | Mon May 19 1997 17:17 | 6 |
| Windows95 will work fine on a PWS200i... the only thing to
worry about are graphics-related (namely, does Acell and
Intergraph have Win95 drivers, Direct3D, etc, and are they
supported).
K
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| 2928.5 | another consideration | LEXSS1::PUCHRIK | Cooler Master | Sat May 31 1997 14:01 | 5 |
| RE:.3 PPro is socket type 8. This is a dead-end. No follow on chips.
Pentium II is socket type 7. A system with socket type 7 will be able
to upgrade to faster chips when available. I found this out after I
bought my clone with PPro. Just as well. I won't be upgrading for
a while now.
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| 2928.6 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Sat May 31 1997 22:44 | 4 |
| Pentium II is "Slot 1", which probably will have an upgrade path, but
it will be strictly Intel, I am sure...
Steve
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