From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 5 18:24:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7612037B423 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:24:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010406012422.KZUH3930.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:24:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3ACD1A92.66054AC4@home.com> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:23:30 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tyan 760MP dual athlon support? References: <200104052142.f35LgWr95300@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Keep us posted. I have a new Iwill 1.2Ghz athlon DDR mobo. It encodes mp3 10x faster than my laptop :) Rob. dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > 1) Yeee-hawww! > > 2) I just got my new research workstation approved--a dual 1.3 Athlon > system with 1G of DDR, 3 15k scsi drives, 4 40G ide drives, and a 21" > sony monitor. For a mere $4800 :) [You have leave to drool :) ] > > It will come with a single > processor, and the motherboard and scsi controller will be swapped for > the 760MP when it comes out. Which leads to, > > 3) Multiprocessor support in FreeBSD. This is K7, not P6, and I know > it's different--it uses the alpha bus. Will I be able to run FreeBSD > on it? When tyan showed off the machine, they did it with mandrake > linux--but noone has explained what they did to get it running. > > 4) Yeee-hawww! > > :) > > hawk > -- > Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 > dochawk@psu.edu > These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message