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To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 1995 22:38:43 GMT."
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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 15:01:22 -0800
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> Gary Palmer said:
 > Greg Lehey wrote in message ID
 > <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de>:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Who cares about 16 bit mode? FreeBSD is a *32* bit system, so it's not
 > affected AFAIK :-)
 > 
 > Gary
 > 
 > 

Actually, it will be nice if we can demonstrate how great FreeBSD is
on a P6 given that Win95 has problems right now due to its 16bit
code.

	Enjoy,
	Amancio