[geeks] Yeow! That is a pricey CPU for a PeeCee!

[Ken Hansen]

The Pentium III was never meant for desktop machines, per Intel while they were working on them, same with the Pentium Pro and maybe even the Pentium II. Few believed Intel, it was probably more marketing hype than anything else. ("Oh no sir, you don't want that computer -it's *too* fast for you, but if you *insist*...") 

I forget which chip it was, but there was one intel chip that was actually *slower* than the chip it replaced for normal, end-user applications (MS-Office, etc.).

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:21 PM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] Yeow! That is a pricey CPU for a PeeCee!


On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> In the old days, they would have said how a chip this powerful would only be of use in servers, well HP is shipping servers and workstations based on this chip family.

When did they do that?  I wasn't around PCs when the 486 came out (still
in CPM land then), but when the Pentiums came out, I saw workstations
right away (PC Magazine did a test comparison of a 50mhz Pentium against a
Sparc 10, some DEC, some IBM, etc).  Same when the Pentium Pro came out.