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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Tyan Tomcat II @ P5-166 or P5-200 Will It Work?
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:44:19 +0900
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Craig Nordin wrote:
> 
> My friend is running one with two processors on his NT
> system and it smokes!  It doesn't have cache, since even
> with the latest bios the 512K cache seizes the machine,
> but the board looks very very good right now.  It screams
> without cache.
> 

I've been sticking with the Tempest II, but the Tomcat II is looking
like it's getting close to prime time.

BSDI's recent web benchmarks were done on a Tomcat I.  I guess the 512K
cache is ok on single CPU configs.

Regards,


Mike Hancock