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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 5 Apr 1997 18:06:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5i64b7$99q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <E84Kwp.8ox@nonexistent.com> <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:168221 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38541 lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) wrote: > >4 years ago(when FreeBSD started) there were no 200 MHz x86 CPUs! > > Actually, there were. The DEC Alphas and the MIPS processors, all of > which NT can run on. Apart from that you've been missing the `x86' in the quoted sentence, a 200 MHz Alpha CPU is something very different (read: slower) than e.g. a 200 MHz i586. I don't know all reasons for _why_ this is, but it seems the Alpha CPU requires a much higher clockrate to get things done at comparable speed. Since other RISC CPUs don't behave similar, this cannot be only due to RISC, either. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)