Ben Kochie wrote:
> 
> most distributions are 386, or 486 compiled.  the Pentium 4 is little more
> than the PPro architecutre, which the kernel optimizes just fine for.. the
> only distro that comes with all pentium-optimized (pgcc) binaries, is
> mandrake, and it shows, i think it's the most unstable distro out there.
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
> 
> > Anyone know what kernel versions do/don't run "native mode" (as opposed
> > to "i386") on a Pentium 4?
> >
> > How about full Linux releases?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -S

Yeah, but you gotta admit, 1.5GHz is attractively fast.  At roughly $2K
(base model, w/o monitor) from Dell, that's _still_ 7500Hz/penny.

Memory thruput alone ought to make it scream compared to a same Hz'ed P-III.

-S