Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:53:56 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@atipa.com Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980630175318.20900E-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980630071018.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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heh I'm still very happy with my pentium 100, who needs new PC hardware when the older stuff runs freebsd very well (and I don;t do windows) ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > On 30-Jun-98 Tony Kimball wrote: > > I'll move this to chat. > > > > Quoth Atipa on Mon, 29 June: > >: > > [snip lots of alpha stuff] > > > > > I'd feel pretty good buying Alpha hardware right about now if only > > there was an upgrade roadmap. (That's always been the illusory carrot > > motivating hobbyist hardware choices -- historically favoring intel -- > > hasn't it? Modular upgrades, carrying over hardware from generation > > to generation.) > > > > But it doesn't really hold true now for us hobbyist. Things change > so fast at the motherboard level that unless you upgrade every 6months > you need to buy MB, CPU and RAM new each time. I've just spent > about 3weeks trying to work out whether to get a PII, a super-7 or > a "good" TX to upgrade from my 486. In the end I went for a TX board and > spent the money I saved on a few toys (like a CDROM/sound card etc.). There > was no way that a PII or socket 7 board would survive a cpu upgrade in > say 18months time, which is when I feel I will want to > upgrade again. > > Duncan > Very happy with an upgrade resulting in about 8times performance improvement. > Would be less inpressed with a PII-233 to PII-333 upgrade :-) > > --- > ________________________________________________________________________ > Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, > dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. > ________________________________________________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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