From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 10 16:54:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21143 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles202.castles.com [208.214.165.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21136 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01587; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:50:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902110050.QAA01587@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@feral.com cc: Jaye Mathisen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive backplane PC's? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:51:13 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:50:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > 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