[luau] Re: dual pentium pro

[Yu Ming]

Is it just Neo S370, or some more sophisticated ones, like PL-370/T
or PL-370/SMP? the later is much more expensive.
Ming Yu

> Aloha,
>
> I think you are correct.  When I bought my adapters they offered a PIII
> version that came with the PL-PRO/II and a seperate smaller adapter that
> fits in between the PIII and the PL-PRO/II.  The Neo S360 is so small I
> forgot all about it.
>
> Dusty
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>> Thank you,Dusty. But maybe you have used Powerleap's Neo S370 in
>> conjunction with PL-PRO/II, since PIII 1.1Ghz's pin definition (as as
>> well as the voltage?) is different from Celeron 533's.
>> Ming Yu
>>
>>> Aloha,
>>>
>>> Yes,  just put faster PIII processors in the PL-PRO/II adapters.  The
>>> PPro systems run at 66mhz.  What I did was convince Powerleap to sell
>>> me PL- PRO/II adapters with no processors and then I bought 2x PIII
>>> 1.1Ghz processors with 100Mhz bus.  The bus is the important part.
>>> Basically you are under clocking the processor in the PPro system.
>>> One of the PIIIs I got was 133Mhz bus (the retailer thought he was
>>> doing me a favor) and that processor ran much slower (1.1Ghz @ 100Mhz
>>> underclocked to 66Mhz = 726Mhz, 1.1Ghz at 133Mhz underclocked to 66Mhz =
>>> 539Mhz).  So I traded in that processor for the 100Mhz and everything
>>> worked fine.  My Tyan 1662 board booted right up and worked great
>>> with Linux and Win2k .
>>>
>>>
>>> Mahalo,
>>> Dusty
>>>
>>>
>>>> I had a dual pentium pro machine running Linux, and recently
>>>> upgraded the machine to dual celeron 533MHz by using the socket
>>>> converter PL-PRO/II manufactured by Powerleap. I read from your
>>>> archives that someone can upgrade such machine to dual PIII 730MHz.
>>>> Does anyone know how this could be done or give any hint?
>>>> Ming Yu
>>>>
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