Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 10:22:03 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? Message-ID: <199511050922.KAA10429@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951104151145.9088P-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> from "Jaye Mathisen" at Nov 4, 95 03:12:38 pm
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Jaye Mathisen writes: > > > 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 Sorry, guys, this seems to have been taken seriously. Until I saw what Windows 95% was really like, I didn't understand the magazines, and I didn't realize just how much 16 bit code was still in the market leader's "Operating System". I wasn't trying to indicate that FreeBSD would be affected. Greg
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