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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!night.primate.wisc.edu!tmpnews.crd.ge.com!news.crd.ge.com!rebecca!newserve!news.cc.geneseo.edu!news From: Denilson Perez <perez@iqsc.sc.usp.br> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD on Pentium and Pentium-PRO Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:21:39 -0700 Organization: Universidade de São Paulo Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31F91AB1.526D@iqsc.sc.usp.br> Reply-To: perez@iqsc.sc.usp.br NNTP-Posting-Host: 143.107.237.108 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) I have some questions about FreeBSD and I'd love to be helped if possible: 1. Does FreeBSD run on a PC with 2 Pentium or Pentium-PRO processors motherboard ? Does anyone have experience about that ? 2. Is there any known comparison between performance of a BSD-Intel (Pentium-166 and/or Pentium-Pro) and UNIX-RISC/6000 for scientific calculation purposes ? Denilson S. Perez - University of Sao Paulo Sao Carlos - SP - Brazil