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Re: I bought a 200 MHz PPro system for myself at the
same time as I bought a 166 MHz Pentium box for my dad
about a year after PPro came out. The cost difference in
mobo and processor was only a few hundred dollars....

Well it sounds like prices must have seriously dropped during that year, because I looked it up, and the 200MHz PPro (small cache version) launched in November, 1995 for $1325. Meanwhile, Pentium 166 MMX launched in January, 1997 for $407. Hmm, a $900 difference in 14 months... certainly possible, but I wasn't considering the price of older generation parts for the purposes of my argument. And besides, I began my timeline in May, 1997, not too long after you could have possibly purchased the 166MHz MMX.

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Re: Peddle your revisionist BS history to kiddies who weren't
born then, maybe they will believe you.

Maybe it's you who has the problem, because I don't see anything terribly inconsistent with what I proposed.