[geeks] Intel Xeon Processor

[Shawn Wallbridge]

William S. wrote:

>In an earlier thread someone commented how well
>the P4 Xeon 1.8GHz processor did with the distributed folding.
>I was curious and went to the intel site to find out
>more about the Xeon. Although I saw references to
>the Pentium 4 and also to the Xeon, I did not see them
>expressed as one entity.
>
>I am not very knowledgeable about cpu's so could someone
>briefly explain to me if a P4 and Xeon is of
>the same "pedigree" and why now they are named separate?
>
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>
The Xeon listed on Intel's site would be the P4 Xeon.

shawn