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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux --(was re: Yikes!!! New 200Mhz Intel P6 Benchmarks
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glew@ichips.intel.com (Andy Glew) wrote:
>    Now, what I like to see is a FreeBSD box or Linux Box running on
>    a Pentium Pro 8)
>
>Can I get in trouble for saying this?
>
>I'm posting this from a Pentium(r) Pro Processor based system running
>FreeBSD. It's my primary desktop computer.
>
>It's not the fastest P6 around, but it is the fastest computer I have
>ever had on my desktop. 
>
>I keep crying out "God, I *love* this!" every time I realize that the
>P6 is fast enough to run some software feature that I tried a while
>back, and found too slow to tolerate. (I have a very low tolerance for
>features that slow down performance.)
>
>I keep running impromptu benchmarks on little things I do regularly -
>sorts, perl scripts, compilations, news. Many of these show speedups
>(over P5, or other CPUs) significantly *better* than the published
>SPEC and other benchmark results for P6.
>    I.e. P6 is disproportionately faster on many of the things that
>most annoy me. P6 delivers performance to more than just special case
>benchmarks.
>    I'm somewhat constrained from posting such ad-hoc benchmark
>results, but I hope that others will post such results, as soon as
>they have access to P6 systems.
>
>In fact, the only thing I'm really annoyed about is my very slow, old,
>EtherExpress 16 card.
>    The trouble about building a compatible system is that it is
>compatible with old I/O cards, and you can't always justify buying a
>new one.
>
>"God, I *love* this!"
>
>
>
>
>-- 
>
>Andy "Krazy" Glew, glew@ichips.intel.com, Intel, 
>M/S JF1-19, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497.  
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>DISCLAIMER: private posting, not representative of employer.
>
>We're looking for a few good microarchitects for our research labs.
>
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