Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 15:48:20 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.), hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? Message-ID: <15480.815528900@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 1995 22:49:57 %2B0100." <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de>
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> 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. Ah, but we don't *care* since we're not running funky Windows 3.1 apps under FreeBSD.. :-) Truly, the UNIX and UNIX clones may get a boost from the P6 because, at least for awhile, they're going to be getting the most bang-for-buck out of it. Once all those 16 bit legacy apps go 32 bit, however, you'll see Windows regain the advantages it temporarily lost. I don't think that the P6 will be a "flop" at all, at least not in the longer term. Jordan
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