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From: csh@elsun313.cc.purdue.edu (Chris Sheldon)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 13 Dec 1994 09:36:48 GMT
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In article <3cit0i$mjf@Tut.MsState.Edu> Stormy@Mail.Mother.COM writes:
>Stephen C. Camp writes:
>
>   Are you interested / would you purchase a PowerPC system if you could
>   run Linux / NetBSD on it?  
>
>Well, with the problems Intel is having with honesty, I'm not particularly
>interested in purchasing anything else they have to offer, so yes, I am
>looking at the PowerPC systems.
>
>I've heard they're faster anyway, this true?
>
>    -- Stormy Sebastian Henderson ----------- As always, working on his --

Make sure that you have a level 2 cache if you get the IBM PowerPC
non server model (desktop pc)...
These have not been released yet (4-6 months) and the ones we have run
at 386/486 speeds most of the time with AIX. However, we don't have 
a level 2 cache in any of the machines, just the cache on the chip.

Our IBM rep did bring down a cache card for a test run, and with the 
cache, it flew!! 

Chris.
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