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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!uwm.edu!news.he.net!usenet65.supernews.com!news From: karl@softronex.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 06:12:44 GMT Organization: Softronex Corporation Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32c21620.2987225@news.netwave.net> References: <32C063E4.69BE@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp15.tld.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33173 On Tue, 24 Dec 1996 15:14:44 -0800, tgibson@ibm.net wrote: >I am considering buying a Dell Dimension Pentium Pro and need to >run FreeBSD on it. > >Does anyone have any experience or comments about running FreeBSD on >Pentium Pros? I'd be particularly interested if anyone has seen an >improvement with a 200MHz Pentium Pro when compared with a 200 MHZ >vanilla Pentium. > >Tim Gibson >tgibso2@cs.umbc.edu > or >gibsonetal@aol.com It blows away the regular P200. The only problem i have found is that i am using Cyclades multi port (Cyclom 16Y) and the drivers doesn't work. At least on my Pentium Pro 200. Same configuration works on a Pentium 133 without a problem. I guess is a timming problem. Other than that, it flyes!, specially when re-compiling a new kernel. See'ya Karl Wagner San Juan, Puerto Rico