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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 1995 15:12:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
Cc:        "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951104151145.9088P-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de>

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I think this is specifically referring to running windows 3.x and win95.  
Under NT, and other 32bit OS's, it looks like it rocks.  We've ordered a 
board to sample, I'm going to try NT on it first, then FreeBSD, so I 
shoul dhave good news pretty quick.

On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Greg Lehey wrote:

> 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
> 



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