From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jun 21 01:04:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA00792 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:04:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from portal.spi.net ([199.238.225.153]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00786 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@MindBender.HeadCandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by portal.spi.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA01161; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:04:08 -0700 Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA01537; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606210804.BAA01537@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Andrew V. Stesin" cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix and AMD chips In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 21 Jun 96 10:55:44 +0300. <199606210755.KAA27015@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:04:06 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Just a minor addition for interested people: > a brand new Taiwanese SiS 496/7 > PCI 486 mainboard with full AMD 5x133 support costs (street) > around $80 even here. So it might be better to dump > an old MB and simply get a new one, instead of looking > for VR device. Unless you have a 486 EISA motherboard, that you payed $300 for two years ago, with three EISA cards, and sixteen 30-pin SIMM sockets, almost all full. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------