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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Curious about the Pentium Pro
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 02:51:41 GMT
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Ed Hudson (elh@shellx.best.com) wrote:
: Mark Musgrove (musgrov@birch.ee.vt.edu) wrote:

: : Has anyone tried to install FreeBSD on the new
: : P6 systems?  How long did it take to compile the
: : kernel?

: : Mark 

:  p5/90mhz,   ad2940 (~3.3mby/s iozone), kernel compile:	11.5min
:  p6/150mhz,  ad2940 (~5mby/s iozone),   kernel compile:	 3.5min

: 	slowest benchmark i've run is a little less than
: 	2x the p90, fastest is 4x, typical is 3x.
: 	now, if only it was a 64bit architecture machine, with
: 	a vm subsystem with pid's...

Aye caramba!  Where did you get the machine?  Are there
any companies selling REASONABLY priced motherboards
yet? 

Gosh, I remember spending $1200 for a P90 mboard only about
2 years ago...now they're only about $400.  :-)

Regards,

Chris
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