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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!super.zippo.com!zdc-e!szdc!szdc-e!news 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 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32C0DF02.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32C063E4.69BE@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33270 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