From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 7:53:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (mail1.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0350A37BC89 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 07:53:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lauasanf@bellsouth.net) Received: from damage (host-209-214-118-109.bna.bellsouth.net [209.214.118.109]) by mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with SMTP id KAA14911; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:53:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Laurence Sanford Reply-To: lauasanf@bellsouth.net To: atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br, Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [off topic] Pentium IV Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 08:56:12 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <14686.41738.626456.870733@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> In-Reply-To: <14686.41738.626456.870733@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070208581901.19199@damage> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are no details yet on the Pentium 4 (it is 4 btw, they've dropped the roman numerals) other than the fact that supposedly its architecture is as new and different from the rest of the P6 family as the Athlon's is. That, and supposedly, its going to run at very high (read start at 1.3Ghz) clock rates. Only time will fill in more of the sketchy details that have been released. On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga spoke unto us, and they said: > Any one know where can i see details about Pentium IV? Like benchmarks > (no windows ones), or articles ? > > Another question: When Intel released Pentium MMX the principal changes > from Pentium was some instructions in the processor, bud only > softwares ables to "look for" that instructions worked better. With > Pentium II ==> Pentium III was the same thing. My question is: Are > there projects in unix word that take care news softwares become ables > to works with this "instructions"? > > Thanks, > > Ata. > > PS: Sorry for so poor english. > > -- > Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br > http://www.iqm.unicamp.br > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Drew Sanford Email: lauasanf@bellsouth.net ICQ: 8690555 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope. Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message