Basically the core of the PII, xeon and Celeron is identical, difference is
the L2 cache and the Xeon is better in the workstation market with the
applications that use multiprocessing and multi-threading.
For more see the following:  http://www.tomshardware.com/xeon.html  for the
diff and similarity of Pentium II,Pro, xeon and
http://www.tomshardware.com/xeon2.html
http://www.magsys.co.uk/mbs/intelcp.html  for chart with a comparison of the
PCI chipsets
and http://www.magsys.co.uk/mbs/intelmb.html  for chart with comparison and
features of the motherboards; also see http://www.motherboards.org/

Regards,
Tim  [log in to unmask]
>snip>
> Could someone please explain the difference between Pentium II,
> Celeron, and
> the Xeon processor chips???
>
> I checked out the intel web site, but didn't find any information
> that would
> tell me the difference between them...
>snip

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