Re: tlug: Intel Pentium-II

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Totoro wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > replaced cpu and motherboard, obviously (P-II takes different kind of
> > board)...
> 
> Oh well, so much for that line of thought. I don't keep up with all
> the specs that change a lot, obviously...
> 
> Guess I'll stick with what I have for now, if Intel isn't making
> much real progress (other than over-hyped PR).

Just timed an app compile, as a contest between a K6-200 (with 12 people
logged in and running pine and/or emacs) and a P2-300 running nothing else
except X and a couple Xterms.  Pretty much identical compile times.  If
anything the K6 linked the binary faster.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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