From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 06:54:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA08383 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 06:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rk.ios.com (rk.ios.com [198.4.75.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA08378 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 06:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rashid@localhost) by rk.ios.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03520; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:54:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Rashid Karimov Message-Id: <199607091354.JAA03520@rk.ios.com> Subject: Re: Pentium Pro 200 To: chrisl@bbs.justcompute.com (Chris Lavin) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:54:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607081324.JAA04237@only.justcompute.com> from "Chris Lavin" at Jul 8, 96 09:21:56 am Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Does freeBsd take FULL advantage of the Pentium Pro Proccessor?..Should I > go that route or what?..I am currently running a couple of 133 Mhz Pentium > systems and I don't knwo whether I should Bump them up!!!! Any Advice > would be greatly appreciated.. Certain efforts are being made to include PPro specific optimization into gcc . I'm not sure how stable it is now , but in any case buying PPro vs Pentium system has a lots a sense - even with "regular" binaries perfomance is much higher. Pentiums will be obsolete pretty soon IMO. Be sure to avoid buying PPro system with PCI chipset bug - browse arhives at comp.sys.intel or FreeBSD newsgroups and/or mailing lists to get more details. > > Rashid.