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Date:      Thu, 2 May 1996 10:54:33 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any Pentium Pro MB recommendations? 
Message-ID:  <9605021454.AA04731@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199605021213.FAA11983@Root.COM>
References:  <199605021202.NAA04591@chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk> <199605021213.FAA11983@Root.COM>

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<<On Thu, 02 May 1996 05:13:10 -0700, David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> said:

>    It's an Intel Alder SMP system with 1 CPU. It is on loan to us from Intel
> and as far as I know, is not currently for sale. The "B" stepping of the Orion
> with the PCI write buffer fixed should be available now. I don't know if
> anyone is making a motherboard with the fixed chipset on it yet, however.

We have a gaggle (well, four) of Intel PPro systems with the fixed
Orion chipset (remember to get the /server/ version, I think that's
-KX...?).  We got them for free from Intel, however, so I don't know
if the motherboard in them is actually being sold on the open market
right now.

I am right now running Satoshi's bcopy comparisons on this machine.

-GAWollman

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