From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 15:03:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA25550 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 15:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from beach.silcom.com (root@beach.silcom.com [199.201.128.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA25544 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 15:03:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by beach.silcom.com (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id OAA01213; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 14:26:27 -0800 Received: (from alan@localhost) by trickler.uu.silcom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA01212; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 13:55:16 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 13:55:16 -0800 From: "Alan D. Trombla" Message-Id: <199512142155.NAA01212@trickler.uu.silcom.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade - CPU, clock? To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >From: Jaye Mathisen > >Well, you don't say what your peripherals are, so it would be hard to >say. For example, if you're using a 1522 Adaptec controller, then a 10 >billion gigahertz P7 ain't gonna help get those bits off the disk any faster. Sorry; to be more clear: the bottle neck I am interested in opening is purely CPU. I am happy with VM/IO provided by an EISA SCSI controller and 16MB of memory. Alan Alan D. Trombla--------------------------------------alan@iplab.ece.ucsb.edu