Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:29:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Travis Cole <> | Subject | Re: PentiumII's. |
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On 30-Jul-97 Lai Zit Seng wrote: >On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, System Email wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Mitch Davis wrote: > >> > System Email wrote: >> > > Does linux support PentiumII's (does it work?) >> > >> > A friend of mine bought a single processor 266MHz P2 to use as a >> > web cache server. He has had no problems with it, running 2.0.28. >> > The cache server gets 1 Megahits per day. > >> How does it comapre to a PPRO 200? :) > >Yes, I'm interested too. I'm looking for all-round performance. That would >mean the Pentium-II if necessary. But if Linux doesn't make much use of >MMX, and given the Pentium Pro's integrated L2 cache, perhaps the Pentium >Pro might prove to be a better choice. Most of the benchmarks I've seen >are Windows based, so they're probably not very useful to guage >performance under Linux. > > >..lzs > Along these same lines How well does the AMD K6 stack up? And If I were to compile a kernel for an AMD K6 should compile it as 486, Pentium or Ppro?
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