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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6?
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In article <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de>,
Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> wrote:
>Amancio Hasty Jr. writes:
>> I was just reading comp.sys.intel and the 200Mhz P6's performance looks
>> really cool 8)

>Don't believe it.  The magazines over here are full of the fact that
>it's a flop, since it takes forever to change from 32 to 16 bit mode
>and back again.

Why on earth would we want to change from 32 to 16 bit mode?