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From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD
Date: 30 Dec 1996 22:40:48 +0200
Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland
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In article <32C063E4.69BE@ibm.net>,  <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.

make world, exact same setup except the cpu

p133	3:06:00
p166	2:40:00
p200	2:20:00
pro200	1:25:00

the message is clear.


mickey