From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 14:37:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA16512 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 14:37:33 -0800 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA16497 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 14:37:28 -0800 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA06486; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 14:37:12 -0800 Message-Id: <199511042237.OAA06486@rah.star-gate.com> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 1995 22:49:57 +0100." <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 14:37:08 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> Greg Lehey said: > Amancio Hasty Jr. writes: > > > > I was just reading comp.sys.intel and the 200Mhz P6's performance looks > > really cool 8) > > Don't believe it. The magazines over here are full of the fact that > it's a flop, since it takes forever to change from 32 to 16 bit mode > and back again. > > > Whatever that may mean :-) > Greg Yeap, it means a whole lot because we would not see a vast performance improvement from the horde of 16apps that we have 8) Cheers, Amancio