[openbeos] Re: AMD / Intel

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:43:29 +0200 CEST

> > "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  ...
> > > Just to through my coin into this off-topic thread:
> > > Currently, AMDs processors are the best choice for BeOS,
> >  ...
> > > BeOS/Dano has many timing issues under a (faster) P4,
> > > rendering it useless for many tasks
> > 
> > In case anyone here is shopping for a new system
> > the P4/Celeron 2GHz doesn't have any timing issues
> > that I'm aware of.
> 
> It has no timing issues, correct
That's because 2GHZ < 2^31
(the kernel stupidly casts something as int32 instead of int64)

François


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