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From: tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD
Date: 30 Dec 1996 09:27:56 -0800
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tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:

>Your answer sort of implies that installing PP180 in a motherboard like
>ASUS P6NP5 (which says "PP200") means it will be run at 200 (I may be
>misreading your message, of course).  As a person to whom hardware is
>a necessary evil, I freely admit I may be somewhat (I am trying to
>flatter myself) ignorant in that respect, but I was hoping it is
>possible to set the motherboard to work at 180.  Am I mistaken?

Please diregard the above question.  I just underwent my daily regimen
of SOTRTFM (Slapping Oneself To RTFM) and checked the outstanding
http://www.surfusa.com/ASUS.html site.  Yes, of course it is possible to
run 180 as 180 with 256 or 512 L2 cache, and, yes, of course I misread
your post.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Oh, something off the subject: With the recent announcement of Apple
going with OpenStep+MacOS, how many people are afraid it may be a
serious threat to free unices?  I must admit that a possibility of
having a UNIX system (unless Apple manages to castrate OpenStep) that
runs inexpensive Mac apps natively is incredibly appealing to me.

t.
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