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Date:      Fri, 3 May 1996 07:22:18 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mac@nibsc.ac.uk
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, angio@aros.net, steve@gordian.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any Pentium Pro MB recommendations?
Message-ID:  <199605022152.HAA00977@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199605021202.NAA04591@chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk> from "mac@nibsc.ac.uk" at May 2, 96 01:02:41 pm

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mac@nibsc.ac.uk stands accused of saying:
> >
> >Unless something drastic has happened in the last few months, there are
> >_no_ decent P6 motherboards generally available.  The 'Alder' chassis
> >is a special Intel Server Group product, and is AFAIK not generally
> >available.
> 
> IIRC ftp.cdrom.com (the busiest site on the 'net for ftp) uses FreeBSD on a
> PentiumPro.  Any one know what their m/board is?

Sheesh.  That's what the message I was just replying to was all about.

ftp.cdrom.com is an Intel 'Alder' chassis.  It's based on the Orion
'set, with the PCI-posted-write bug worked around.


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