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Date:      Wed, 05 Nov 1997 19:31:08 -0600
From:      dkelly@hiwaay.net
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can a PII & a P6 coexist ??? 
Message-ID:  <199711060131.TAA06577@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from S ren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk>  of "Wed, 05 Nov 1997 19:26:01 %2B0100." <199711051826.TAA04134@sos.freebsd.dk> 

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> In reply to Kenny Hanson who wrote:
> > I've never heard of those kinds of adapters... Intel has a pretty tight
> > lock on Slot 1  technology (i.e. against the law to reverse engineer) 
> > so I can't imagine  that anybody
> > would be able to engineer a socket8 to slot1 adapter.  Of course, I
> > could be wrong :-)
> 
> Go look at www.tyan.com & www.asus.com, and you will see that they
> exist, I've even had one in my hand (don't know what make it was though)

Maybe when we say, "socket8 to slot1 adapter" we should say, "a slot1 
board with a socket8 for your PPro chip". Otherwise it appears this 
discussion might be about something that turns a socket8 into a slot1 
so you could stick a P-II on a PPro MB.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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