Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16492; Sat, 2 Dec 95 08:55:27 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14841; Sat, 2 Dec 95 08:54:24 EST Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA11076 ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 04:33:37 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA10569 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 04:28:46 -0800 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA10552 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 04:28:36 -0800 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA27949 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for hackers@freebsd.org); Sat, 2 Dec 1995 05:37:46 -0600 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA16053 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 05:25:55 -0600 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 05:25:55 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199512021125.FAA16053@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone got FreeBSD working a P6? Organization: Taronga Park BBS References: <199511041934.LAA05470@rah.star-gate.com> <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <199511042149.WAA21203@allegro.lemis.de>, Greg Lehey 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?