Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.seanet.com!news.seanet.com!michaelv
From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro support
Date: 16 Nov 1995 05:21:49 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Nov15212149@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <46n3u4$256@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <47cojd$4cj@simpson-04.cs.strath.ac.uk>
<30A16CC6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <DHrECs.J3E@ritz.mordor.com>
<GLEW.95Nov14222646@pdx007.intel.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mindbender.seanet.com
In-reply-to: glew@ichips.intel.com's message of 15 Nov 1995 06:26:46 GMT
In article <GLEW.95Nov14222646@pdx007.intel.com> glew@ichips.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
<30A16CC6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <DHrECs.J3E@ritz.mordor.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pdx007.intel.com
Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
: More to the point, FreeBSD is already known to run just fine on the P6.
: [sorry, I simply refuse to refer to it as the "Pentium Pro" - ugh! :-)]
Any difference noticible difference in performance compared to a
comparably clocked Pentium?
Oh God, yes!
(This is being posted from a P6/150 running FreeBSD.)
Care to elaborate? Surely you've run some benchmarks...
--
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -