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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:44:20 -0400
From:      Brian Campbell <brianc@milkyway.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pentium II?
Message-ID:  <19970730144420.16698@milkyway.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707301817.LAA05450@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 11:17:51AM -0700
References:  <19970730123613.03490@milkyway.com> <199707301817.LAA05450@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 11:17:51AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Actually the 266Mhz P5/MMX has already been announced for early next year.
> > www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/pcwo/0723/pcwo0005.html
> 
> Actually, these are the same people who said I could get a
> 486 DX/2-100, and thus convinced me to buy my 486 DX-50.

Can't now, or couldn't ever?

I used to have a DX4, and did manage to get it to boot at 2*50, but my
graphics and scsi cards didn't like that much.  I know at least one
other person that claims to keep his DX4 running at 2*50.

> My 486 DX-50 still beats the snot of of a P5 DX/2-66, and is
> more than fast enough (EISA bus overclocked to 50MHz) to handle
> a lot of stuff that early P5 machines couldn't.

Hmmm ... Never heard of a P5 DX/2-66  ;-)



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