Ivan Voras wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > I had FreeBSD 2.2-stable installed on an old notebook with > > 4 MB RAM (actually less, because ~ 0.5 MB was lost VGA > > mappings and registers etc.). It was very usable for > > simple things like text editing and as a terminal. > > High end Xeons and Itaniums have 18MB - 24MB of internal L1+L2+L3 > caches. That's enough to fit *and run* entire Doom 2 and similar games :)= > > I can just imagine it... Doom2 run from the CPU caches, running at > something like 10,000 FPS in 320x200 :)
Yes, but you can do that with a normal RAM-equipped machine, so you don't need a special BIOS or special patches to FreeBSD. Just make sure that your running code set fits into the caches. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "If you aim the gun at your foot and pull the trigger, it's UNIX's job to ensure reliable delivery of the bullet to where you aimed the gun (in this case, Mr. Foot)." -- Terry Lambert, FreeBSD-hackers mailing list. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
