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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
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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>
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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. 
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