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RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-on-my-sexium dept.

zorn writes "The Register has the scoop that 'this week Intel told its customers that it is to formally discontinue production of the Pentium II at 266, 333, 366 and 466MHz. Documentation seen by The Register reveals that you'll be able to continue ordering the part for a year, with the last trays leaving the chip giant's Pentium II warehouse on 1 June 2006.'"

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  1. Pentium II was still available for purchase? by Omniscientist · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not that I'd know, being loyal to AMD and all.

  2. Re:You mean people still buy Pentium 2s? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that high price CRAP is 9000 times more stable than your P-4 6.8ghz with 22 terabytes of cache.

    P-II's go into space on sattelites, rovers, probes..

    you know things that actually do work and matter unlike the piece of shit computer you have. (that's if you own a alienware eliete series that cost you $5K or more, that is shit... anything less is uinbelieveably low grade crap.)

    get a clue that there are those of us out here that still design things to use a 386 processor because we are doing real work with thme instead of playing around making believe we do something like you.