From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 29 21:28:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25832 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA25794 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 9741 invoked by uid 1017); 30 Jun 1998 03:24:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:24:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Tony Kimball cc: rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII In-Reply-To: <13720.5928.221514.597576@compound.east> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > : Yes, but benchmarks at tomshardware.com have already established > : that the 100Mhz memory bus offers little improvement over the 66Mhz > : bus on a PII. > > Kinda sad, to be squabbling about the tiny differences between > PII/PPro, when G3, Alpha, and UltraSparc systems are whipping the > '86s by much more substantial margins. What's SpecInt95/SpecFP95 on a > 450MHz G3, anyhow? The SPECfp95 for their new 400MHz chip w/ 1MB L2 (400MHz) is 13.7, compared to 23.5 for a Sun Ultra60 Model 360. You can use up to 8 Xeons simultaneously. > I know USparc IIi is more than twice as fast as a > PII on my FP kernels. Can you get Alphas from Samsung yet? That > should be a commodity-pricing watershed event, when it occurs. That would be nice. I am worried about the future of Alphas at this point... Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message