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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro support
Date: 16 Nov 1995 05:21:49 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: glew@ichips.intel.com's message of 15 Nov 1995 06:26:46 GMT

In article <GLEW.95Nov14222646@pdx007.intel.com> glew@ichips.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:

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       Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
       : More to the point, FreeBSD is already known to run just fine on the P6.
       : [sorry, I simply refuse to refer to it as the "Pentium Pro" - ugh! :-)]

       Any difference noticible difference in performance compared to a
       comparably clocked Pentium?

   Oh God, yes!
   (This is being posted from a P6/150 running FreeBSD.)

Care to elaborate?  Surely you've run some benchmarks...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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