From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 20 18:41:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA19199 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aeffle.Stanford.EDU (sequence.Stanford.EDU [171.65.76.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19043 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by aeffle.Stanford.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA04797; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:38:36 -0700 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:38:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA Apollo chipset: Any experience yet? In-Reply-To: <9608178430.AA843019634@ccgate.infoworld.com> 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 Tue, 17 Sep 1996 BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com wrote: > Does anyone have experience with VIA's Apollo chipset, which is directly > competitive with Intel's Natoma? > We have seen the FreeTech F66 Motherboard with the Pentium Pro and it uses Intel's Natoma chipset and seems to offer very good blazing performance especially for Windows 95. It should do miracles for FreeBSD. I do not know about the VIA Apollo chipsets for Pentium Pros, but the ones for the Pentium/Cyrix/AMD are okay. ---- || Shoppers Network BEST PRICES, FULLY x86 COMPATIBLE & FAST!!! || PO BOX 16627 Cyrix 686s now available! || San Francisco, CA 94116 Email - info@shoppersnet.com | ------------------------------> WWW - http://www2.shoppersnet.com -------------------------------> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com/shopping