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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:32:03 +0100 (MET)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject:   Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6?
Message-ID:  <199512040732.IAA09292@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199512021125.FAA16053@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Dec 2, 95 05:25:55 am

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Peter da Silva writes:
> 
> 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?

Damned if I know.  But it must be important if the magazines say so.

Greg



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