Re: tlug: Intel Pentium-II

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> 
> Well, I just finished upgrading my development machine from a k6-200 to a
> P2-300.  Know what?  Almost no noticable speed improvement, and my loaded
> FTP server, gandalf.pht.com (dual PPro 200) can compile a kernel faster
> than this completely-unloaded P2-300 can.  Don't you just love Intel?
> Seems like they're becoming more a marketing company than a real
> technology company, just like Microsoft.  I'll be waiting for that 300MHz
> k6 coming out this year...

What did you replace, other than the cpu? Without upgrading the busses
you'll not likely see any great speed change, as these can often be a
bottleneck. 

David Riley

Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki
Hachinohe-shi Aomori-ken

http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp

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