https://dfarq.homeip.net/intel-pentium-pro-how-it-could-succeed-and-fail-simultaneously/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=intel-pentium-pro-how-it-could-succeed-and-fail-simultaneously David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 09 May 2025 13:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://dfarq.homeip.net/intel-pentium-pro-how-it-could-succeed-and-fail-simultaneously/#comment-56512 Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:31:48 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35294#comment-56512 The Pentium Pros were first released in 166 and 180MHz speeds – and other than the change to 200MHz, the other tuning was the L2 cache size (256Kb, 512Kb, and 1Mb). I’ve always liked the Socket 8 appearance of how the pins were arranged for each half of the cache and processor areas. That design was known to have the issue of only being able to test the CPU as a whole once it was together.

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