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> While we're on the subject of Compaqs, I just acquired a Deskpro 
> 590 used, which I'm hoping to use to replace my 486 Linux firewall 
> / mail server.  I resolved a PCI bios problem with "pcimove.sys" in 
> config.sys, and starting Linux from dos with loadlin.  My big 
> problem now is the 35 bogomips I'm seeing, which isn't any faster 
> than my 486.  It looks like the cpu clock is being slowed down.  
> Any ideas?

Don't trust bogous mips :)

The speed of a Pentium bares little relation to its bogomips, as seen from
the 2 /proc/cpuinfo's below. Fireleaf is a P90, Thornapple a duel P200.

A Pentium MMX has 2xMhz bogomips, and a P2 has bogomips=Mhz

root@baneberry:~> less /shared/status/fireleaf/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 2
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 90.001521
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips        : 35.84

root@baneberry:~> less /shared/status/fireleaf/thornapple
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 2
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping        : 12
cpu MHz         : 199.230518
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic
bogomips        : 79.46


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