[NTLUG:Discuss] Dmesg output--off topic

[al]

> Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999
> Detected 297789125 Hz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 297.37 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 127608k/131008k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1636k data, 64k init)
> DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02

I have a K6-III 400
and my bogomips are 799+
is the great difference from my on-die cache alone?
would a hypothetical P-Pro 400 give a similar leap over the P-II 300?