On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> The bogomips rating is virtually meaningless. Some old AMD 486 class chips had
> rating well above most Pentiums, and many P-II's rate higher than some very
> expensive Alphas. It's basically a measure of how fast the processor in
> question does a particularly trivial loop test. Treat is only as a bragging
> rights justification.
>
Or as a measure of your computer behaving in a strange
way... :-) For example, when I had trouble booting my
computer the other day (accidentally left a bootable CD in
the drive and my computer won't boot off SCSI CD <G>) and I
finally got booted up, I only had about 3 bogomips. I
rebooted and immediately got my normal nearly 200 bogomips.
:-)
John
