Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:50:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive backplane PC's? Message-ID: <199902110050.QAA01587@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:51:13 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902101649170.10463-100000@feral-gw>
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> > > > > Typically, you will also be paying for a (quite expensive) PICMG CPU > > card to go with the backplane; probably not so much of an issue if > > you're looking at such a stoked system. > > Expensive? Siliconrax has them for ~200$- not bad when you consider > it includes all standard I/O stuff. Hmm, that's much more like it. I was used to looking at > AUD$1k for a simple socket-7 card. > My main box is a 5 PIC-MIG system each with one ISA and one PCI per > PIC-MIG CPU. It's rather a nice arrangement for one box, although > I could wish for separate power for each segment. For this we have the Exacto knife, right boss? 8) -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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