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Early pentium III's were slotted too. Through what I've heard, it was done b/c the socket versions had heat problems and they couldn't produce a proper fan & heatsink combo to do the tirck, so they made those behemoth slot chips to do all the cooling and such.
There's also the versatility of using the same MBoard for P-II, P-III and Celeron. Just change the CPU daughterboard. Upgrade path is easy that way.... but they found they weren't making as much money on new mobo's. Hence back to a dedicated socket. And a few people in wet/dusty adverse climates had relibility problems with dirt and corrosion in the slot.
That's the skinny I got.
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