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To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.),
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Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? 
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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 15:48:20 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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