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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:55:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        craig@gnofn.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pentium II?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970730085513.1338B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707301500.LAA01362@crh.cl.msu.edu>

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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:

> In lists.freebsd.hackers you write:
> 
> >The real issue is that the PII is untried, whereas FreeBSD systems
> >on PPro hardware, like ftp.cdrom.com (which serves 2000 simultaneous
> >ftp users) have been ticking along reliably for quite some time
> >now.    
> 
> I've been running a P-II/266 for months, overclocked at 300 even.  It works
> flawlessly.  It blows the hell out of my PPro/233.  Hands Down, left right,
> forwards, backwards, and inside out.  And I dont give a rip if its Slot 1,
> Slot 3, socket 8, or a bunch of wires glued to a CPU.  I buy motherboards and
> processors together, and I dont give a rip what the connection is.  I require
> performance for my apps, and there's nothing on the planet that will
> (currently) touch a P-II/300.

  Yep, that's what I've been trying to say.

> -Crh
> -- 
> 
>        Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu
> 
>                          http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
> 
> 

Tom




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