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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PCI/Pentium and *BSD
Date: 2 Aug 1994 14:31:28 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <3164co$lvh@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us>,
Kevin Sullivan <ksulliva@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Has anyone tried NetBSD or FreeBSD on a Pentium?  Have there been any 
>problems?  Likewise, does either one run with PCI cards?  I would like
>to get a PCI SCSI card (maybe the Bustek 946C).

I and a couple other core FreeBSD members are running FreeBSD on their
Pentium boxes.  It seems to work well, though w/out a Pentium aware
compiler the performance isn't *that* much greater than a 486/66.


Nate

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