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From: seth_leigh@dtint.com (Seth Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: BYTEBENCH Benchmark Results Wanted
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:06:26 -0800
Organization: Digital Technology International, Inc.
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Hi all.

I just built a box for FreeBSD.  I have had a reasonable amount of
experience with Windows/Win95/NT/DOS machines in the past, although I have
never owned one.  I have always specialized in the mac at home, and gotten
some unix experience at school.  But I have never owned an
Intel-architecture machine until now.  I have heard some good things about
Cyrix chips before, and my brother just used Cyrix chips to build several
FreeBSD boxes for his business, so I used one for my new unix box.

I am interested in getting BYTEBENCH benchmark results from others running
FreeBSD, because I would like to get an idea of how fast my machine is. 
BYTEBENCH was a benchmark package available in the packages installation
in the sysinstall program when I installed FreeBSD.

If you have run BYTEBENCH on your box, and would be interested in swapping
results files with me, please email your results and your email address to
me at seth@pengar.com.

I ran BYTEBENCH and redirected the output to a file, so the results file I
have is exactly what appears on the screen.  I don't have the file here at
work, but I will email it to anyone that wants to compare it with their
machine.

My machine is:

Cyrix 6x86 P166+ cpu.
16 MB RAM
1.6 gig Sanyo IDE hard drive
VTI motherboard with HX PCI chipset and 512k cache
Zoom 33.6k internal modem
1.44 mb floppy
a cheap NE2000 compatible ethernet card
a cheap VGA card (ISA bus)
wicked cheap monitor that only uses black and yellow

Currently, FreeBSD 2.2-BETA is the only system installed on that machine. 
One of these days, I am going to come up with some more money (when the
wife calms down from me making this machine as it already is ;-) I intend
to buy a CD-ROM and a nice PCI SVGA graphics card and a Trinitron monitor,
add some more RAM, and install X Windows, and maybe even put Win95 on
another hard drive (this whole drive is used by FreeBSD currently) for
playing games.

I would be especially interested in comparing results with people who have
Cyrix P150+ and P166+ processors, and also folks with Intel Pentium 150
and 166.

TIA,
Seth

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J. Seth Leigh                          seth_leigh@dtint.com
Digital Technology Int.               (801)226-2984
500 W. 1200 South, Orem UT, 84057     FAX (801) 226-8438