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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 03:00:02 -0500
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tgibson@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> I am considering buying a Dell Dimension Pentium Pro and need to
> run FreeBSD on it.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience or comments about running FreeBSD on
> Pentium Pros?  I'd be particularly interested if anyone has seen an
> improvement with a 200MHz Pentium Pro when compared with a 200 MHZ
> vanilla Pentium.
> 
It appears to be generally approx 2X a P5-166.  I have been
working on P6 specific improvements also to gain even more.

John