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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6?
To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 10:22:03 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951104151145.9088P-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> from "Jaye Mathisen" at Nov 4, 95 03:12:38 pm
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Jaye Mathisen writes:
> 
> 
> I think this is specifically referring to running windows 3.x and win95.  
> Under NT, and other 32bit OS's, it looks like it rocks.  We've ordered a 
> board to sample, I'm going to try NT on it first, then FreeBSD, so I 
> shoul dhave good news pretty quick.
> 
> On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > Amancio Hasty Jr. writes:
> > > 
> > > I was just reading comp.sys.intel and the 200Mhz P6's performance looks
> > > really cool 8)
> > 
> > Don't believe it.  The magazines over here are full of the fact that
> > it's a flop, since it takes forever to change from 32 to 16 bit mode
> > and back again.
> > 
> > 
> > Whatever that may mean :-)
> > Greg

Sorry, guys, this seems to have been taken seriously.  Until I saw
what Windows 95% was really like, I didn't understand the magazines,
and I didn't realize just how much 16 bit code was still in the market
leader's "Operating System".  I wasn't trying to indicate that FreeBSD
would be affected.

Greg