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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!elh From: elh@netcom.com (Ed Hudson) Subject: Re: *BSD on a Pentium? Message-ID: <elhCJI7wJ.76K@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <2gjp4gINNmti@uwm.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 06:41:06 GMT Lines: 23 Scott Knaffla (scottk@point.cs.uwm.edu) wrote: : Just curious: : Has anyone every tried to run *BSD on a Pentium machine? just this last weekend i went out and bought a pentium motherboard and $spentium cpu chip. it is now running FreeBSD-1.0.2 very well (with XFree86-2.0). there were no pentium-specific problems that i encountered. in a day or two i'll try to post some real benchmarks. in the interim i have exactly 1 datapoint: the 60mhz pentium with 512k cache and no-memory interleaving is 3.8x faster than my 486-25 with 128k cache. the motherboard was from a local (santa-clara) manufacturer. -elh elh@netcom.com