From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 19 20:20:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01575 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01550 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA19181; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:20:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA11943; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:20:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:20:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: wong@rogerswave.ca cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA Apollo chipset: Any experience yet? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Ken Wong wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Does anyone have experience with VIA's Apollo chipset, which is directly > > > competitive with Intel's Natoma? > > > > No, but have you found a motherboard using this chipset? I have been > > wanting to bring it in for evaluation but have not had the time to hunt > > down a board using it. > > > First International Computer ( http://www.fic.com.tw ) is the VIA chipset > and motherboard producer. PA-2005 motherboard seems to use VIA apollo. Yeah, that's available on the web from Tom's page, but where to get price/availability on these is the question. Like to see performance figures, using DIMMs too. BTW, I _think_ the number is PA-6010. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------