Francois Labreque wrote:
> 
> Not really.  The FPU of the Athlon is a lot better than that of a PII or
> PIII at the same clock speed.
>

I totally agree; I was talking specifically about the 3 processors he named,
Celeron, PII & PIII

> The main difference between a Celeron and a "true" PII or PIII is the
> lack of onchip cache

Current Celerons do have onchip L2 cache, but it's smaller than that of
PII/PIII.

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