Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 09:16:35 -0700 From: Christian Sung <cwsung@Sung.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, "'Mike Smith'" <mike@smith.net.au>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <199807011616.JAA11396@vampire.sung.org> In-Reply-To: <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D108649@OCTOPUS>
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Paul, Try www.pricewatch.com, you may just find what you're looking for. -christian At 11:08 AM 7/1/98 +0100, Paul Richards wrote: >Does anyone actually know of sources of 200Mhz PPro chips since I >haven't had much luck finding any for the last few months! > >Paul Richards Ph.D. >Originative Solutions Ltd > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mike Smith [mailto:mike@smith.net.au] >> Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 12:31 AM >> To: Garance A Drosihn >> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc >> >> >> > Okay. For those who can't seem to find the machine I'm >> talking about >> > at insight, the URL is: >> > >> > >> http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/1480860161/web/technote.html >> ?a=f&f=p&d=TODT102 >> > 6U >> >> Ooh, I want me one. 8) >> >> > I just ordered a second one of these $800 boxes yesterday, >> and I think >> > they still have a thousand left in stock (that's with just >> the single >> > PPro, of course, for SMP you'd have to buy another processor). I >> > imagine it is to my advantage to have many many of these sold to >> > freebsd folks, as it will increase the number of people interested >> > in freebsd support for them :-) >> >> They ought to Just Work. >> >> > But I really was interested in whether there's anything I need to >> > watch out for when buying the second processor, in case I >> want to try >> > for SMP in the fall, >> >> Should be nothing special. Make sure you're buying the processor >> sooner rather than later, as they're getting harder to get. >> >> > and whether there's a way to read the temperature >> > sensors inside the box while freebsd is running. >> >> I believe someone's already written code to talk to the LM78, if not, >> you could dig out the specs and do it pretty easily. There's a Linux >> driver that's supposed to do this (didn't work too well when I tried >> it). >> >> -- >> \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >> \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au >> \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org >> \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Christian W. Sung E-Mail: cwsung@Sung.org IS Management Consultant Website: www.Sung.org Senior UNIX Consultant Telephone (800) COM-UNIX "And the UNIX Guru typed 'rm -rf /*', and all that was before, including the Guru himself, became then null and void, and darkness came down upon the system and those who worshiped it in a rather ruthless way." -- C.W. Sung ================================================== PGP Key Fingerprint: F6E2 0372 F765 28B6 6D34 7DF4 A928 A7AF 59A0 04CD ================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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