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Concerning the 'slowness' of PentiumPro vs Pentiums of same clockspeed:

First, note that if if buy a PentiumPro, you're not at all likely to 
get one of the same clock speed anyways!  Therefore, this kind of comparison
is worthless.  The fact is, a PentiumPro 200mhz is the fastest available
intel production chip for running apps, 32 OR 16 bit.  

As far as all the magazines and 'experts' statements that because of the 
PPro "problems" running 16 bit apps, please stop and think about this,
and realize it for what it really is: Marketing for Pentiums.  

Intel has loads of pentiums to sell you.  The vendors have loads of
pentium systems and motherboards to sell you.   They are geared up
for production of pentiums, not pentium pros.  Do you think they
want you to postpone buying a system until you can afford a
Pentium Pro?  No way!  Do you think they prefer you buy Pentium
now and a PPro later?  Absolutely!  Do you think they're going to
milk the Pentium market for everything it's worth before gearing
up for PPro production?  You bet! 

I don't think the Pentium is suddenly going to become trash, or unable
to adequately run the next versions of Windows or whatever OS you
choose.  You've got to decide at what point is the increased 
performance no longer worth the increased price, for YOUR purposes
and apps.  As someone pointed out, you should at least try and make
a guess at what OS and Apps you intend to run a year from now. 
For someone who relies heavily on floating point, a PPro might
be the worth it depending on the time they save.  For others,
the time saved may not be worth it, now, or three years from now.
To make that decision, you have to distinguish between what's
important and what's marketing hype.