From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 11 10:07:46 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA23282 for current-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:07:46 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA23275 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:07:42 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA03963; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:07:18 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504111707.KAA03963@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: ASUS www mirror To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Apr 11, 95 05:29:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1598 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Carefull with them there model numbers dropping parts of them can > > lead to the wrong board being talked about and/or facts about them > > not being quite factual. > > No kidding! This lead to much confusion a couple months ago when > I went shopping for a second system on which to build FreeBSD. My > general impression was that the 486SP3 is "bad" and the 486SP3G is > "good". However, I ended up with a 486AP4 because the dealer, > strangely, said he was not able to get any SP3G's. Seems like ASUS > earmarks close to 100% of their SP3G's for export... :( And every one keeps droping the PCI/I- or PVI- or PCI/E- off the front of these part numbers, this is just as bad :-(. I haven't done any of the PVI-486AP4 boards so I don't know how fast they are compared to the PCI/I-486SP3G, does your board require simms to be installed in pairs or can you install just 1 72 pin simm and have it work. If the later you lost quite a bit in memory performance compared to the PCI/I-486SP3G as the latter is about the only board I have seen lately that uses memory interleaving to get real performance out of a 486 chip. The PCI/I-486SP3G with a 486DX/4-100 CPU chip competes very well against most 60mHz Pentium systems, outperforming some at a price that is 60% lower. The PVI-486SP3 looks to be a bad choice of motherboards for Unix, it only accepts 2 simms total :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD