Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:28:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? Message-ID: <199504182128.OAA14107@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504182047.NAA04963@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Apr 18, 95 01:47:50 pm
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> > Our research group (NOW, short for Network of Workstations, doing > research on a parallel computing environment to replace MPPs) are now > discussing for a possible extension of horizon to PCs. Of course, I > think this is a good chance to have them realize that they can get > "commercial-grade" (no flames please, note the quotes) BSD operating > systems on fast, inexpensive computers. > > The next group meeting is on Thursday, so I need to make some quick > preparation. I'm the only FreeBSD proponent in the group, there are > several Linux users, and the rest are "workstation > PC" people. > > So, if you have any documentation or list of caveats and emptors > (pardon my Latin), I'd like to hear from you. Anything will be fine, > of course I won't merely reuse them, I just need examples and list of > things to consider. > > Also, if people are aware of high-end network components supported by > FreeBSD, it will be great. I've found something about the DEC 21140 > based chip in the mail archive, is the driver fully functional now? > How much does it cost? (Those kinds of questions.) Same goes to the > FDDI driver. The SMC 9332 cards are now shipping, my distributor has them in stock, my selling price is $221.00 shipped to any US address via UPS ground. I am still waiting on the SMC 9332EVAL kits to find out if I can resell them or not. I talked to SMC on this and they did not even know themselves if they had marked the product ``not for resell''. They did state the main purpose of the eval kits was for VAR's and OEM's to be able to test the product for compatibility and that it was not really meant to be an end user product. As far as I know they are working (I am currently waiting on 4 of them, and a 100MB/sec hub to arrive so I can do the testing). I will post test results once the hardware is here and up and running. > Note that this will be a HUGE project, which might go up to the order > of thousands. The main discussion topic is like "hundreds of > workstations or thousands of PCs?". The line between a workstation and a PC is becoming very grey these days. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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