From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 10:42:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08664 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08636 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA07952 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:41:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:41:49 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: 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 Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > 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. :-) On a marginally related topic... I noticed that although that my two machines, one P5 166 and the other a PPro 200, have about the same performance when running the rc5des client for the DES encryption routine, but when running the rc5-64 the PPro 200 is about 2.5 x faster. I don't get it. :-| ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/