P4s, Athlons and bandwidth

Florin Andrei florin at sgi.com
Thu Aug 14 19:47:51 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:43, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:

> If we assume that most boxes in use are P4s or Athlons or at least
> that P4s and Athlons are the majority when speed matters (ie not
> for ere firewalls and similar tasks who often handled by obsolete
> boxes) then RedHat should be optimized for P4 (notice that does
> NOT mean  "will run only on the P4"  

There are still lots of PIIIs in use, especially Xeons.
Hardware doesn't get obsolete that fast.

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Florin Andrei

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