From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 29 21:13:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6BF514EB8 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 65688 invoked from network); 30 Aug 1999 04:13:06 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 1999 04:13:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:13:06 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Wes Peters Cc: Chuck Robey , Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: <37CA00C4.95ACE5D7@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > Uh, no, HP has already admitted that when Merced ships it will be slower > than current-generation PA-RISC CPUs. Which means it will also be slower > than Alpha, PowerPC, and UltraSPARC processors you can buy now. > Which is just going to make *everyone* jump ship for an expensive, slow chip, with unproven compilers. Yeah! David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message