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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!zuul.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Pentium Pro support Date: 16 Nov 1995 16:39:07 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 27 Message-ID: <48fpfb$rvs@zuul.nmti.com> References: <46n3u4$256@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <47cojd$4cj@simpson-04.cs.strath.ac.uk> <GLEW.95Nov14222646@pdx007.intel.com> <DI306K.B0G@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Andy: could you use normal quoting? Took me a minute to figure out who said what. I changed your indent to a >... In article <DI306K.B0G@ritz.mordor.com>, Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote: > Andy Glew (glew@ichips.intel.com) wrote: > : Christpher Mauritz wrote: > : > 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.) > Oh my, now there's an unbiased source of info... :/ I'd tend to take Andy "Krazy" Glew's posts with only a couple grains of salt. Yeh, he gets into flame-wars with folks from MIPS on comp.arch, but I don't think I've seen him exaggerate too much. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them