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To: Tyson Boellstorff <tysonb@pionet.net>
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Tyson Boellstorff wrote:

> My company considers buying a new SMP machine for some
> CPU/disk-intensive tasks (similar to news server: searching and
> processing large quantities of text files), and I convinced them to give
> a try to FreeBSD. The idea behind it is to save some money on another
> Sun Ultra, if possible... 
> 
> What hardware would you recommend? Now I'm thinking about the following
> setup: 

Tyan 1668 ATX with AMI BIOS, ASUS, or Giga Something.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp.