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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
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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