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Re: Pentium III or K7 Athlon?

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:00
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In article <7qlrf7$l5q$1@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com>, John Gilliver
<g6jpg@gmrc.gecm.com> writes
>
>Russell Goodman (R.Goodman@NOSPAM.russky.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
>: The only real drawback is that it will not work in a Slot 1 motherboard(As
>: used by PII,III and Celeron)
>[]
>From the pictures it looks like a slot rather than socket thing; I presume
>therefore that yet another type of processor holder (on top of socket 7,
>super socket 7, slot 1, slot 2, and Celeron 370) has now been added to the
>market. Groan ... )-:

Slot A, something to do with the Digital Alpha IIRC.  Wouldn't that be
good - if you could have an x86 PC and just swap in an Alpha CPU for
that extra kick.

>--

Sig sep's broken.

TB
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From: Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Pentium III or K7 Athlon?
Date: 1999/09/02
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