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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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