From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 29 15:47:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26375 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:47:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from compound.east.sun.com ([208.141.230.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26350 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alk@compound.east.sun.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound.east.sun.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA04842; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:47:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:47:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: O9M"E%K;(f-Go/XDxL+pCxI5*gr[=FN@Y`cl1.Tn Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: rotel@indigo.ie Cc: freebsd@atipa.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII References: <199806292003.VAA02803@indigo.ie> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13720.5928.221514.597576@compound.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Niall Smart on Mon, 29 June: : : Yes, but benchmarks at tomshardware.com have already established : that the 100Mhz memory bus offers little improvement over the 66Mhz : bus on a PII. Kinda sad, to be squabbling about the tiny differences between PII/PPro, when G3, Alpha, and UltraSparc systems are whipping the '86s by much more substantial margins. What's SpecInt95/SpecFP95 on a 450MHz G3, anyhow? I know USparc IIi is more than twice as fast as a PII on my FP kernels. Can you get Alphas from Samsung yet? That should be a commodity-pricing watershed event, when it occurs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message