[Coco] Nitros9 Boot Disk "issues"

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Tue May 23 14:54:11 EDT 2006


On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
<On topic for list part of post snipped! :-) >
> =-=-=-=
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> In other news, I can tell you that Athlon64 CPUs are *schweet* for running 
> MESS, except it's not multithreaded, so it'll only run on one CPU. I have 
> .103b on my flash drive (to make sure it's a similar test) and my Athlon64 
> 4400+ (dual core 2.2Ghz) runs it over 600% natural speed with no frameskip; 
> twice as fast as my Athlon 2600+ MP which runs at 2.13 Ghz. @ about 280%. 
> Now all we need is Nitros9 Beowulf cluster software, so I can run 2 copies 
> of MESS (one for each core) and have them work together... {{ Evil genious 
> adjusts monocle & wrings hands together menacingly... ;-) }}
> 
> Oh, and at 600%, one would need to adjust the keyrepeat values, as it's 
> *way* to easy to get multiple letters whilst typing.

I'd just like to point out that the Athlon64 4400+ works real well with Linux
also! :-) It actually took me a few days to get used to how fast things
ran under it!!

Frank



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