[CLUE-Talk] would like to try Linux

[Dave Price]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:09:57PM -0600, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:09 pm, Dave Price wrote:
> 
> > The difference between a P-II and P-III is just the onchip cache size
> > and a few pipeline optimizations in the microcode.  I run a P-III in a
> > motherboard that thinks it is a P-II.
> 
> I think there are other differences.  But, check out this cool site:
> 
> 
> 
> I thought that the P3 has a much greater number of instructions per cycle, 
> compared to the P2.  Of course, I have no _evidence_ for this and could not 
> find on Google any 
> 
What site?

The 'more instructions per cycle' is the microcode optimization; same
instruction set, just faster.

aloha,
dave