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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!sol.caps.maine.edu!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: PentiumPro BSDI performace ? Date: 28 Dec 1995 21:11:57 GMT Organization: Maine State Government Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4bv16t$3ml@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <4btp7t$nno@clarknet.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] martin stary (mstary@prairienet.org) wrote: : Hi, : I was wondering if the new PentiumPro 200 machines would acheive good : performance under BSDI. The PentiumPro is a highly optimized chip and : the 16-bit app performance is poor. How does this impact the BSDI os ? bsd/os is very much 32 bit, and initial reports on 32 bit os's like freebsd are very good. Intel gambled when designing the Ppro that most software would be 32 bit by the time it came out, but they lost that one. Here's where the unixes will really shine:) -- David Miller Usual disclaimers apply