From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 15:15:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (mail2.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3281637BE59 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lauasanf@bellsouth.net) Received: from damage (host-209-214-113-72.bna.bellsouth.net [209.214.113.72]) by mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with SMTP id SAA02148; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 18:15:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Laurence Sanford Reply-To: lauasanf@bellsouth.net To: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" , atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: [off topic] Pentium IV Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 16:20:16 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070216210101.20431@damage> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nope. This is Itanium. The P4 is an x86 chip. On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1) spoke unto us, and they said: > Is the P4 the same thing as the IA-64? IA-64 is a join venture between HP > and Intel attempting to create a merge of PA-RISC and x86 > architectures...check out http://www.IA-64.hp.com, could be what your > looking for but I'm not sure. > > Gene > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Laurence Sanford [mailto:lauasanf@bellsouth.net] > >Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 7:56 AM > >To: atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br; Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga; > >questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: [off topic] Pentium IV > > > > > >There are no details yet on the Pentium 4 (it is 4 btw, > >they've dropped the > >roman numerals) other than the fact that supposedly its > >architecture is as new > >and different from the rest of the P6 family as the Athlon's > >is. That, and > >supposedly, its going to run at very high (read start at > >1.3Ghz) clock rates. > >Only time will fill in more of the sketchy details that have > >been released. > > > > > > > >On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga spoke unto > >us, and they said: > >> Any one know where can i see details about Pentium IV? Like > >benchmarks > >> (no windows ones), or articles ? > >> > >> Another question: When Intel released Pentium MMX the > >principal changes > >> from Pentium was some instructions in the processor, bud only > >> softwares ables to "look for" that instructions worked better. With > >> Pentium II ==> Pentium III was the same thing. My question is: Are > >> there projects in unix word that take care news softwares > >become ables > >> to works with this "instructions"? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Ata. > >> > >> PS: Sorry for so poor english. > >> > >> -- > >> Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br > >> http://www.iqm.unicamp.br > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > >Drew Sanford > >Email: lauasanf@bellsouth.net > >ICQ: 8690555 > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > >"My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a > >general, if you > >become a monk, you'll end up as the pope. Instead I became a > >painter and > >wound up as Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Drew Sanford Email: lauasanf@bellsouth.net ICQ: 8690555 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope. Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message