From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 10:25:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05436 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05339 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:24:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA16540; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:24:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:24:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Simon Piette cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choosing a motherboard and a Pentium In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Simon Piette wrote: > I would like to know if there is a speed gain to use FreeBSD with a Pentium > II (over a Pentium Pro, or a vanilla Pentium) and if FreeBSD is compatible > with ATX motherboards. FreeBSD should work with ATX boards fine. (If it doesn't, let us know and we can get that fixed up quickly :-) ) The PII and PPro are fairly equivalent, but those are heads-and-shoulders above stock Pentiums. Do a mail archive search for `make world times' and you'll see what I mean. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major