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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Freminlins" <freminlins@gmail.com>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; "Greg Barniskis"
<nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>; <danial_thom@yahoo.com>;
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Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?


> Ted,
>
> On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386
> > and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386.
>
>
>
> How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes: "Support
for
> 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel configuration option) has been
> removed. Users running this class of CPU should use FreeBSD 5.*X* or
> earlier."
>
>

Oops, forgot about that.  Use 5.x then.  The statement is that newer
versions of
FreeBSD are slower than older versions.  The point was that this isn't
relevant
to 90% of users for reasons I already cited.

Ted