bah... some info says that the 1.2ghz tbird is still faster than the 1.5.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Steve Siegfried wrote:
> 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
>
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