Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:37:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: macgyver@infinet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: the old intel aurora board... Message-ID: <199609191937.MAA01311@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199609190801.BAA07949@MindBender.serv.net> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Sep 19, 96 01:01:14 am
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> >I have a chance to purchase a Aurora board for $800. It has > >a P6-200 CPU, ATX Case. > >I know this board use the old orion chipset, though I also > >heard that some of the later stepings of the chipset is > >"fixed". Is this a good deal, or should I fork out the > >extra and get a Venus Board instead? > > I personally wouldn't buy any Intel board, but that's just MHO... > > See related discussions on the lists recently for alternatives. I would, if it came from their server products group. Unfrotunately, the ones they sell outside the company tend to come from their OEM products group, and generally fall into the category of "technical and minimal standards compliance". That is, they do stupid things like making all PCI cards go to the same interrupt because the PCI standard technically allows this, even though it means that you can't interleave interrupts from multiple PCI cards (for instance, oh, say, reading a disk on a PCI controller and writing NFS packets to a PCI ethernet card at the same time). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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