From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 30 08:55:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA10915 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:55:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA10906 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:55:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wtb66-0000MC-00; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:55:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:55:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Charles Henrich cc: craig@gnofn.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium II? In-Reply-To: <199707301500.LAA01362@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > > >The real issue is that the PII is untried, whereas FreeBSD systems > >on PPro hardware, like ftp.cdrom.com (which serves 2000 simultaneous > >ftp users) have been ticking along reliably for quite some time > >now. > > I've been running a P-II/266 for months, overclocked at 300 even. It works > flawlessly. It blows the hell out of my PPro/233. Hands Down, left right, > forwards, backwards, and inside out. And I dont give a rip if its Slot 1, > Slot 3, socket 8, or a bunch of wires glued to a CPU. I buy motherboards and > processors together, and I dont give a rip what the connection is. I require > performance for my apps, and there's nothing on the planet that will > (currently) touch a P-II/300. Yep, that's what I've been trying to say. > -Crh > -- > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu > > http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich > > Tom