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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:13:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu
Subject:   Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990829231152.57769B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <37CA00C4.95ACE5D7@softweyr.com>

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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote:

> 
> Uh, no, HP has already admitted that when Merced ships it will be slower 
> than current-generation PA-RISC CPUs.  Which means it will also be slower
> than Alpha, PowerPC, and UltraSPARC processors you can buy now.
> 

Which is just going to make *everyone* jump ship for an expensive, slow
chip, with unproven compilers.  Yeah!

David Scheidt



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