From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 2 11:09:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA02029 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:09:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01900 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA04968 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:51:59 -0800 Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA10717; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:52:47 +0200 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:52:47 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) In-Reply-To: <199602012200.PAA13856@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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.