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From: graichen@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions suitable for the FAQ
Date: 8 Aug 1995 06:49:58 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: In article <DCyAs7.L6y@midway.uchicago.edu>,
: > 6. Has anyone done any temperature testing while running FreeBSD?
: > I know linux runs cooler than dos, but have never seen a
: > mention of FreeBSD. It seems to run really hot compared to
: No, but we have done numerous taste tests on blindfolded volunteers who have
: also had 250 micrograms of LSD-25 administered beforehand. 35% of the
: volunteers said that FreeBSD tasted sort of orange, whereas Linux tasted like
: purple haze. Neither group mentioned any particular variances in temperature
: that I can remember. We eventually had to throw the results of this survey
: out entirely anyway when we found that too many volunteers were wandering out
: of the room during the tests, thus skewing the results. I think most
: of the volunteers are at Apple now, working on their new "scratch and sniff"
: GUI. It's a funny old business we're in!
... nice - but i think me means that for instance linux (i think FreeBSD too
(?)) uses HALT as idle task - and thus keeps the temperature of the cpu under
normal single-user conditions lower than for instance dos or windows -
example: (from c't a german computer magazine - it was'nt in the april issue
:-) p90 - dos/windows ~45 degree - linux/os2 ~30 degree (FreeBSD wasn't
mentioned but i think it does the same as linux
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