From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 26 08:32:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA16494 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (root@po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA16487 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from timer.eng.umd.edu (timer.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.109]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA26977; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:32:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by timer.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.6.4) with SMTP id LAA10807; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:32:10 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: timer.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:31:48 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@timer.eng.umd.edu To: Vincent Poy cc: Philippe Regnauld , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [H] Optimal computer for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > > > Conclusion: use Parity RAM, but EDO is unnecessary :-) > > Ahhh... The problem is some motherboards don't support the parity > anyways and x32 is cheaper than x36. Does anyone know if EDO RAM will > work on non-EDO machines? Huh? What has the number of bits got to do with the FPM vs. EDO question? They can both come in parity or non-parity, the EDO thing just modifies some of the timing parameters. I think that EDO is cheaper right now than FPM, because of volume questions, anyways, so you get EDO even tho there's no benefit from it, because there's no loss from getting it. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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 picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------