Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 15:01:22 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? Message-ID: <199511042301.PAA06707@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 1995 22:38:43 GMT." <1434.815524723@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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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
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