Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:52:47 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960202103944.10639E-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199602012200.PAA13856@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, if you are in a board-building craze, how about a PCI-only > motherboard? > > 6 (or more) PCI slots > No frigging ISA slots. > No frigging IDE interface. > Zilog UARTs, not Intel (sync serial, X.25, Appletalk, HDLC) > NCR53C8xx SCSI on board > DEC21040 or AM79C970 ethernet on board > Motorola/Eagle MPC105 PCO Bridge/Memory controller > FIFO'ed floppy controller > S3964 PCI video(?) > bidirectional stereo DSP (Gravis?) > OpenFirmware boot ROMs > Some good clock hardware > Seperate keyboard and PS/2 mouse interface. > Maybe a parallel port (IEEE 1284 bidirectional/level 3) You'll also need a good bios for allowing to select if you want to boot from fd/hdd/network. And perhaps also some basic diagnostics (so if you think you have bad RAM you won't have to boot dos to run the test :) Anyway - just build the board and I warrant I'm going to buy some! > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Sander.
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