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Date:      Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:47:03 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Significant speedups from -mcpu=ev56
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906240846250.80685-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <48441.930132275@verdi.nethelp.no>

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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

> > It will break on old alphas. I think NetBSD recently added code to their
> > kernel to emulate these instructions which would allow them to work (with
> > a performance penalty).
> 
> A little question about old Alphas: I have an Alphastation 200 4/100 here,
> 100 Mhz 21064. It feels "slow as molasses" compared to e.g. a P-133. Is
> there any possibility of overclocking these machines? (Yes, I know, one
> shouldn't overclock, and it can break things. I don't care - this is not
> a critical machine...)

I have absolutely no idea.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037





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