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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!purdue!news.bu.edu!usenet From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pentium Pro Machines? Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 02:25:31 -0500 Organization: Zion Elders of SCS Lines: 14 Message-ID: <30C7E86B.15FB7483@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com> References: <4a6tbk$gmv@nyx.eos.hokudai.ac.jp> <4a89ld$4go@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-71-29.bu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-950928-SNA0 i386) Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > We have tested FreeBSD 2.1 on the P6 (I refuse to call it the > Pentium Pro, sorry :-) and it works just fine. In fact, ftp.cdrom.com > will become a 200Mhz P6 system (based around the new P6 MB from ASUS) just AFAIK, you can make those monsters even faster, by changing the bus-width to 32 in drivers which cut it to 16, because of pre-P6 Intels. It still works, but now CPU translates it back to 32 inte- rnally. Anyone investigated? BTW, Cyrix claims, that their 686 running on 120MHz is about same as P6 on 180MHz... And you can use the cheaper motherboard... -mi