From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 6 18:54:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA02927 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 18:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA02898 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 18:54:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@xmission.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA24376; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 20:06:55 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 20:06:55 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711070306.UAA24376@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WTB: Pentium Pro 180 In-Reply-To: <5417.878796140@time.cdrom.com> References: <5417.878796140@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Actually I've reconsidered, I was going to use a Tyan tahoe-2 MB and get a > > single Pro and upgrade to another later. > > But seeing as how almost everyone is dropping pro's like a bad habbit im > > I don't know which "everyone" you're talking about here, but everyone > I know still favors the P6/200, with its faster cache and ability to > cache above 512MB, for any server of truly serious capacity. I can > only infer from this that you've been hanging out with the > light-weights again. :-) Yes, and since he mentioned dual processors, the Pros are a *big* win over Pentiums due to the local cache. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com