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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD
Date: 29 Dec 1996 14:19:29 -0800
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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:In article <tporczyk.851889405@shellx>, Tony Porczyk <tporczyk@best.com> wrote:
:>"John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> writes:
:>
:>>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.
:>>>
:>>It appears to be generally approx 2X a P5-166. I have been
:>>working on P6 specific improvements also to gain even more.
:>
:>I noticed a great difference in price between PP200 and PP180 that
:>doesn't seem to be justified just by the 10% higher clock speed (almost
:>twice the price). Is there something about PP200 that goes beyond the
:>clock speed improvement? I am about to order the new system
:>(components) within the next two days (thanks IRS for forcing stupid
:>schedules), and I'm grappling with this question right now.
:>
:>Tx,
:>
:>t.
:>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
:>Tony Porczyk * tporczyk@infobound.com * San Jose, California
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I believe Pentium pro's ship with two on-chip cache sizes... either
256K or 512K. Perhaps the difference in the prices you got reflect
a different cache size as well as a faster clock rate?
-Matt