From owner-freebsd-smp Sat May 23 09:24:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08464 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 09:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (crbowman.erols.com [209.122.47.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08458 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 09:24:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00485; Sat, 23 May 1998 12:24:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:24:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: Peter Dufault cc: Steve Passe , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good deal on hardware In-Reply-To: <199805231152.HAA06265@hda.hda.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 23 May 1998, Peter Dufault wrote: >> ------- Forwarded Message >> >> I just ordered a second one of these $800 boxes yesterday, and I think >> they still have a thousand left in stock (that's with just the single >> PPro, of course, for SMP you'd have to buy another processor). I >> imagine it is to my advantage to have many many of these sold to >> freebsd folks, as it will increase the number of people interested >> in freebsd support for them :-) > >Given John Dyson's warning about the second CPU, can you comment >about the requirements on the second processor? I checked and >Insight doesn't list 200MHz PIIs, and the 233 MHz they list says >512K cache instead of the 256K on the Toshiba (I don't follow the >CPU hardware closely and wouldn't know a misprint if I saw one). >I'm reluctant to get a good deal on the box if I have to buy two >new CPUS for it instead of 1. > >If many people are looking at this it is worth asking Insight about >the cost of a "12 pack" (or 25 or whatever) with a second compatable >CPU. This is a Pentium PRO system, you are going to need a second pentium pro, a pentium II or MMX won't work. As I recall, Insight didn't sell lone Pentium Pro processors. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com My home page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message