From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 17:47:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA27619 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:47:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA27602 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:47:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (max7-201.HiWAAY.net [208.147.145.201]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA10668 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:47:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA06577 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:31:09 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199711060131.TAA06577@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Can a PII & a P6 coexist ??? In-reply-to: Message from S ren Schmidt of "Wed, 05 Nov 1997 19:26:01 +0100." <199711051826.TAA04134@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 19:31:08 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA27611 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.