[vox-tech] CPU stepping

[Sam Merritt]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> So, last night I went to remind myself how fast Melissa's Thinkpad T20 was,
> and when I did "cat /proc/cpuinfo" I saw ~204MHz, which is about 500MHz
> slower than I remembered it being. :^)
> 
> I also saw "stepping: 3", so I guess the thing had kicked down a few speeds
> for power consumption.  

I don't think CPU stepping has anything to do with the CPU speed. The 
stepping indicates which revision of the CPU you have; every time the 
manufacturers tweak the chips a little, they increment the stepping number.