Re: [IPCop-user] Limited to 4200 kbps download with ipcop, but linksys is fine.

[Wayne S. <ws...@gm...>]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:44:13 +0100, Odd H. Sandvik <hen...@on...> wrote: 
> The main difference between the PPro and PII is that the Pro handles
> 16bit code rather poorly. I would think this is irrelevant on Linux
> though. :)

Well the PII only added minor band aids to the 16-bit problems, but as
you say it doesn't really matter.  The big difference is that the PPro
has a full speed cache on a separate die in the same package.  That
made it significantly faster that the PII, but also much more
complicated so it had lower margins for Intel. ;-)  Eventually the
PII's had much higher clock rates so it didn't matter.

The summary is that the machine has way more CPU than needed to
saturate a 100 Mbit Ethernet.

-Wayne
(ex-Intel Pentium Pro engineer)