From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 3 23:59:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA05698 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 23:59:26 -0800 Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA05691 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 23:59:21 -0800 Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Mon, 4 Dec 95 07:59 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA09292; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:32:03 +0100 Message-Id: <199512040732.IAA09292@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:32:03 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199512021125.FAA16053@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Dec 2, 95 05:25:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 551 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Peter da Silva writes: > > In article <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de>, > Greg Lehey 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? Damned if I know. But it must be important if the magazines say so. Greg