Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | [Drifting off-topic] Re: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ????? | Date | 20 Oct 1998 17:03:15 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.AD5usAsC0T@khim.mccme.ru>, Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru> wrote: >They could still use old (or special) distributions. It's stupid IMO to make >slow distribution optimized for i386 instead of Pentium-optimized one just to >keep this userbase.
Though this does beg the question of `why bother?' -- I know that there are some ppro optimizations that speed things up, but for a casual user will they even be noticable? Since the 805xx chips are just a little bit faster than the 80386 chips, does it REALLY cripple performance to have a 386 kernel on your Xeon (80524?) 800 machine?
____ david parsons \bi/ If kernel performance is that much of an issue, I \/ hope you're using a.out binaries...
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