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From(david parsons)
Subject[Drifting off-topic] Re: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ?????
Date20 Oct 1998 17:03:15 -0700
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?


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    david parsons \bi/ If kernel performance is that much of an issue, I
                   \/                hope you're using a.out binaries...
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