From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 25 11:23:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA23121 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:23:00 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA23115 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:22:58 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA01968; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:13:57 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199501251913.OAA01968@goof.com> Subject: Re: Motherboards To: fbsd@clem.systemsix.com (Steve Passe) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:13:57 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501251834.LAA01262@clem.systemsix.com> from "Steve Passe" at Jan 25, 95 11:34:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 799 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Passe wrote: > VLB: if a 486, OK, if a 586, no. VLB doesn't have a great future. PCI > cards are as cheap and becoming more available. > VLB/PCI: NO NO NO!!! makes for a slow machine. Really? > PCI: if a 586, yes. IMHO PCI is the future. What about with a 486? If I could get an upgrade for my SCSI controller, I'd do this.... > I use the intel plato premiere/II and am quite happy with it. The > prevailing wisdom within FreeBSD appears to favor the ASUS boards, > at least as far as pentium systems go... Hmm. I'll look into ASUS boards... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -- System/Network Administration, User Support, Software Devel. Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research Work Related: mmead@ctr.vt.edu | All Other: mmead@goof.com WWW: http://www.goof.com:/~mmead