Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Damir Smitlener
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 20:14

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Rex Niger wrote:
> 
> >>The current box with dual-603s is in every way faster and more
> responsive than the fastest Mac I have played with (an 8500/120.) Linux
> on this baby will _cook_, and the thought of dual 601s or (steady, now)
> 604s is almost too much to handle.
> 
>   Are any of the Linux kernels floating around SMP? 

There is a beta kernal with SMP support for some time now. How far along
the beta curve it is depends almost entirely on who you talk to.

[...snip...suggesting a Mach-ten like solution...]

Ordinarily I'd disagree with you - but since BeOS has some pretty solid
plumbing underneath the pretty face this might not be a bad idea. 

-- 

Damir Smitlener                   damir@mindspring.com        
aka Little Caesar                 gt7092d@prism.gatech.edu

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 15:14:10 -0500
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