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From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
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Subject: Re: P6 200 performance
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Charles Henrich writes:
> 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!  :-)

I don't want to beat this topic to death but one last question - otherwise
we should go to freebsd-hardware - from what board revision upwards
should I buy?

Don't want to get an old hat from the shelf with yellow wiring or some such.

> 
> Now how did you get a sub4 minute build?  All mine check in at 4.5 :(
> 
> -Crh
> -- 
> 
>        Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu
> 
>                          http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich

-- 
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de