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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: Pentium II?
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, FreeBSD Mailing List wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Rod Ebrahimi wrote:
> 
> > 	Recently I was looking into some of Dell's server systems and found that
> > they offer Pentium II 233mhz and 266mhz... I was wondering if anyone had
> > any experience with these types of systems (Pentium II) or knows how they
> > will interact with FreeBSD...
> > 
> > Thank You.
> > 
> The PPro is still faster for a true 32-bit OS, primarily due to the fact 
> that the L2 is 1:1 with the CPU clock. On the Pentium II, the L2 caching 
> is at 1/2 the CPU clock.

  Not, not quite.  At the same clock rate, the PPro is faster, but the PII
can operate at 266mhz, while the PPro maxes at 200mhz.

> The PII runs 16-bit software better and adds MMX extensions, but for a 
> network server the PPro will still be faster.

  The PII/266 will be faster than a PPro/200.

> Kevin 


Tom