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Date:      Sat, 02 Dec 1995 09:07:00 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? 
Message-ID:  <199512021707.JAA12348@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Dec 1995 05:25:55 CST." <199512021125.FAA16053@bonkers.taronga.com> 

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>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?

To run your DOS emulator.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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