Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 16:50:43 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 12:40:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I had reported on a few xeon things a while back, and finally cleared up >a few things. > >1. The 2.2-2.8 xeons _are_ pentium IV core. I had reported that when I >used ICC (intel's compiler) to compile for the PIV that the resulting code >would not run on my xeon. That was a screw-up on my part. I didn't have >ICC working on my linux box at the time, and was compiling on another box >instead, using a remote X window. I cleverly forgot about this since Unix >makes it pretty well transparent, but the box I compiled on was _not_ a PIV, >it was a PIII, and naturally the PIV instructions would wreck the executable >on that machine. So a bit of stupidity on my part led to a wrong conclusion. >The PIV-instructions compile and run just fine _if_ you run them on a PIV. >Which includes my xeon box. Ah, I thought so. >BTW I think dell has already moved to the dual 2.8/533mhz version, less than a >month after I bought mine at 400. :) Isn't that always how things go? I bought a Tyan TigerMPX board w/2 Mbit Flash ROM for BIOS. About 2 weeks after I bought mine, they released the 4 Mbit version which supports the on-board USB. I have to waste a precious PCI slot on a USB 1.1 card. -Matt
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