From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 07:54:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01262 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 07:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01250 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 07:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA04731; Thu, 2 May 1996 10:54:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 10:54:33 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605021454.AA04731@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: davidg@root.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any Pentium Pro MB recommendations? In-Reply-To: <199605021213.FAA11983@Root.COM> References: <199605021202.NAA04591@chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk> <199605021213.FAA11983@Root.COM> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant