From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 18 02:20:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA07134 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 02:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA07129 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 02:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff [206.173.119.90]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.5/(97/05/21 3.30)) id FAA13646; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:20:33 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from myname.my.domain (ts002d19.sal-ut.concentric.net [206.173.156.55]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.8.5) id FAA03262; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:20:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33A7A810.D585CB96@concentric.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 03:19:12 -0600 From: Joshua Fielden Organization: Shaggy Enterprises X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5C (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Howard Lew CC: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC , Jakob Alvermark , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 or 6x86 ? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The 6x86 is essentially a souped-up 486, with Pentium-class speeds. > In > > the 166 and 200 Mhz variants, it runs quite hot. Integer > performance > > is near the claimed "Pentium rating," but floating point performance > is > > quite a bit lower. I'm loathe to use the 6x86 because of the heat > > factor; most PCs already run too hot and yet make too much noise due > to > > the inefficient layout of the case and various other stupidities > that > > are a given in the PC world. I believe this is because either licensing or technology restrictions keep the FPU back a class, in this case-486. JF