From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 30 14:07:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA04561 for current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:07:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA04528 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:06:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA04937 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org); Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:05:57 +0100 Message-Id: <199601302205.AA04937@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:05:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" "Re: any ideas about this crash?" (Jan 30, 11:10) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: any ideas about this crash? Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 30, 11:10, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: } Subject: Re: any ideas about this crash? } > clocks (read: laptops and "green" PCs). The folks in Intel's P6 architecture } > group were shocked when they heard about what we were doing with the internal } > cycle counter..."It was never intended to be used that way!". } } So where to from here, a BOGOMIPS rating at startup? :-) YES! I'm all for it! But we always display TWICE the value Linux would return X-) :-) This gives us quite a competetive advantage ! Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se