Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:24:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> Cc: rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629212119.9695C-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <13720.5928.221514.597576@compound.east>
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> : Yes, but benchmarks at tomshardware.com have already established > : that the 100Mhz memory bus offers little improvement over the 66Mhz > : bus on a PII. > > Kinda sad, to be squabbling about the tiny differences between > PII/PPro, when G3, Alpha, and UltraSparc systems are whipping the > '86s by much more substantial margins. What's SpecInt95/SpecFP95 on a > 450MHz G3, anyhow? The SPECfp95 for their new 400MHz chip w/ 1MB L2 (400MHz) is 13.7, compared to 23.5 for a Sun Ultra60 Model 360. You can use up to 8 Xeons simultaneously. > I know USparc IIi is more than twice as fast as a > PII on my FP kernels. Can you get Alphas from Samsung yet? That > should be a commodity-pricing watershed event, when it occurs. That would be nice. I am worried about the future of Alphas at this point... Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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