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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.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI V2.1 and Pentium Pros Date: 6 Jun 1996 10:49:47 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4p6d4b$l7i@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4p29p7$hru@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <4p2n3k$l5d@moon.igcom.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E david@terra.igcom.net (David B. Bauman) wrote: > Rumor has it, that the Pentium Pro is sort buggy. > But who knows..... The i686 itself is said to work fine, but the first chipsets by Intel were rather buggy, and thus imposed serious limits on the memory bandwidth. I seem to remember that someone mentioned :) this has been fixed now. j@ida 309% ftp ftp.cdrom.com Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com. ... 230-Welcome to wcarchive - home ftp site for Walnut Creek CDROM. 230-There are currently 453 users out of 1250 possible. ... 230-This machine is a 150Mhz P6 with 512MB of memory & 72GB of disk online. 230-The operating system is FreeBSD. [...] I think this one qualifies as a live example. :-) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j