Re: tlug: Intel Pentium-II

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Totoro wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Well, I just finished upgrading my development machine from a k6-200 to a
> > P2-300.  Know what?  Almost no noticable speed improvement, and my loaded
> > FTP server, gandalf.pht.com (dual PPro 200) can compile a kernel faster
> > than this completely-unloaded P2-300 can.  Don't you just love Intel?
> > Seems like they're becoming more a marketing company than a real
> > technology company, just like Microsoft.  I'll be waiting for that 300MHz
> > k6 coming out this year...
> 
> What did you replace, other than the cpu? Without upgrading the busses
> you'll not likely see any great speed change, as these can often be a
> bottleneck. 

replaced cpu and motherboard, obviously (P-II takes different kind of
board)...

> 
> David Riley
> 
> Hachinohe Institute of Technology
> 88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki
> Hachinohe-shi Aomori-ken
> 
> http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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