From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 22:53:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.bosa.ca (cr1003901-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.37.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA13C37B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kulraj@bosa.ca) Received: from ska1 (h207-230-227-196.dccnet.com [207.230.227.196]) by fbsd.bosa.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id DEF4B158EB9; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <01ae01c0c95e$a2dee7c0$64c8a8c0@asknet.com> From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" To: "Vincent Poy" Cc: References: Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:56:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > True but speaking about AMD, PIII and the likes, where does the > Xeon fit in? Remember way back in the Pentium days? The Pentium Pro was a great CPU for 32bit OS's (WinNT, FreeBSD, OS/2 to name a few) but it sucked big time running Win95. As far as I know the Xeon is a progression on that family of CPU's - server orientated and reasonably well peforming under 32bit OS. But the key question in everybodys mind is bang for your buck - guess what this will bring me right back to the Athlon! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message