John Kloian III wrote:

> You are correct sir.  Same chip, less L-2 on-board cache.
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> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, James Amendolagine wrote:
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> > I just bought a new computer with a celeron in it. I'm under the
> > impression that a celeron is really a PII with a smaller cache. This
> > would mean that I could use the PII/PPro option when compiling the
> > kernel.
> >
> > Anyone know if this is true?
> >
> > Jamie
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OK, I just loaded Linux onto my new "celeron" laptop. The /proc/cpuinfo file says
that it's a PIII Copermine!

Is it possible that Intel has now switched the celerons from being PII's to PIII's?

Jamie