>A friend of mine has a 2xPii-266 and I was playing with it (booted of a
>Jaz drive - its an NT machine) for a couple of hours.
>Parallel kernel compiles are considerably faster. Network and disk
>performance didn't seem to be noticably slower, but it is somewhat
>difficult to tell without propery testing using a real setup.
That's what I'm interested in, web and network performance (I'll assume
that disk performance is only really limited by disk hardware). Having a
"make -j2" run faster with 2 CPUs is no big deal. Having an NFS server run
faster would be...
I meant to say this in my previous message.
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