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Brian Edmonds (brian@gweep.bc.ca)
Sun, 23 May 1999 16:58:00 -0700
Vincent Janelle <malokai@gildea.net> writes:
> Using a P3 on a linux box would be quite useless.
This is a pretty broad statement. Particularly since P3s at the same
clock rate as P2s are currently only about $50 more. The Linux kernel
and compiler may not yet support the MMX2 instruction set, but they
probably will over time. If I were buying a 450MHz x86 CPU today, I can
think of no reason not to pick a P3 over a P2 every time.
Brian.
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