[geeks] Intel Xeon Processor

[Eric Dittman]

> > In an earlier thread someone commented how well
> > the P4 Xeon 1.8GHz processor did with the distributed folding.
> > I was curious and went to the intel site to find out
> > more about the Xeon. Although I saw references to
> > the Pentium 4 and also to the Xeon, I did not see them
> > expressed as one entity.
> >
> > I am not very knowledgeable about cpu's so could someone
> > briefly explain to me if a P4 and Xeon is of
> > the same "pedigree" and why now they are named separate?
> 
> How are you people with the Alpha cpu's doing? alphas should be "pretty 
> good" at floating-point... 

There's not VMS client, so I can't use my Alphas.
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