From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 12 00:37:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06077 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 00:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copernicus.iafrica.com (root@copernicus.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA06048 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 00:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copernicus.iafrica.com (khetan@copernicus.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by copernicus.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA08536; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 09:35:47 +0200 (SAT) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 09:35:47 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compile time In-Reply-To: <199608120651.XAA14810@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > >Which Controller and harddisk do you have ? Sounds to me as if it's > >a little slow for a Pentium Pro clone ?! It's a PCI-IDE controller, with a Quantum FireBall 1080MB drive. > The Cyrix 6x86 is NOT a Pentium Pro clone. It is a _Pentium_ (P5) > clone. The Cyrix marketing department calls it a 6x86 because it is I think they also call it a 6x86 for marketing reasons - you know, 586, then the 686. Also, AMC released the 5x86 and 586, so...... > faster than a Pentium of the same clock speed. It plugs into a > Pentium socket and runs in a Pentium motherboard. And very nicely too ;-) > According to all my benchmark extrapolation, the 6x86 is in fact > slightly to significantly slower than a Pentium Pro of the same bus > speed. It's a lost slower than a PPro, and probably on heavily intensive operations,the same speed as a Pentium with the same clock speed. > You should think of the 6x86 as half way between a Pentium and a > Pentium Pro. More like 10% more Pentium than Pentium. --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan ] UUNet Internet Africa [ 0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com ] Get rid of Telkom.... [ http://www.ispa.org.za ] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org ] Any opinions stated in this message are personal. UIA's official policy may not be reflected in this message.