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  Now this stupid $500 motherboard/computer managed in excess of 90 % of 
the performance of a dual xeon system at the time, if equipped with the 
same ram and scsi drives :-) .. since a xeon was about $2000 at the time 
this 'stupid' system was serious bang for the buck as long as you didn't 
need floating point, ( compile farms and chip synthesis was what we used 
it for, and simple math gives you 4 machines for the price of a cpu, 
which is real value for money since it gives you 4 times the memory 
bandwidth which was the limiting factor at the time ).
  They were very cheap and fast machines.

  i.m.h.o. / Lars Segerlund.

Robert Dewar wrote:
>>dumb statistic, fwiw: dual processor 500Mhz Celerons.  
>>My Mandrake 8.2 distro calls it a pentiumpro.  
> 
> 
> I am surprised anyone would ever have built a dual processor with such
> a strange processor choice. By the way the reason 8.2 calls it a 
> pentiumpro is probably just because it is so slow that it looks like
> it is a pentiumpro :)
>