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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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To: mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: P6 200 performance
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In lists.freebsd.hackers you write:

>On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

>>
>> I want to persuade my professor to spend in a P6/200.
>> What is the performance gain over a P5/166?
>>
>> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>>

>I don't have numbers around (I'm not a number person..) but I'd say a
>decent P6/200 system is about twice as fast as a P5/166. I base this on
>rough SpecINT95/SpecFP95 results I've seen (go to www.intel.com for exact
>figures) and on personal experience. I have a P6/200, and I'm still
>amazed everyday at how fast the thing is. It's the first PC I've seen that
>I would consider a "workstation". I get sub 4 minute kernel builds,
>blazing X-Performance, etc.. etc.. I've never been so happy with a
>computer!  :-)

Now how did you get a sub4 minute build?  All mine check in at 4.5 :(

-Crh
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       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

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