From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 30 11:20:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21856 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA21850 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA05450; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:17:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199707301817.LAA05450@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Pentium II? To: brianc@milkyway.com (Brian Campbell) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:17:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970730123613.03490@milkyway.com> from "Brian Campbell" at Jul 30, 97 12:36:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Actually the 266Mhz P5/MMX has already been announced for early next year. > www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/pcwo/0723/pcwo0005.html Actually, these are the same people who said I could get a 486 DX/2-100, and thus convinced me to buy my 486 DX-50. ^ ^ | | NOTE NOTE My 486 DX-50 still beats the snot of of a P5 DX/2-66, and is more than fast enough (EISA bus overclocked to 50MHz) to handle a lot of stuff that early P5 machines couldn't. Nevertheless, I remain pissed that I can't get a 486 DX/2-100 and leave my bus speed up at 50MHz. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.