Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 23:12:05 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <v04011700b18a9af3c0c5@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <199805212302.TAA02392@xxx.video-collage.com> References: <199805212106.RAA14694@hda.hda.com> from Peter Dufault at "May 21, 98 05:06:14 pm"
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At 7:02 PM -0400 5/21/98, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Peter Dufault once stated: > = I'm planning on getting one also. I'm looking forward to my > = first chance to wipe out NT instead of W95. > Wiped out or not, it will still count as yet another NT computer > in the world. Try to make sure they do NOT give you NT license. > They'll probably refuse to give you a discount for that, though... You're getting a mighty nice box for a mere $800. If you demand that they open up the box to remove WindowsNT, I think you'll just irritate them. What are they going to do with it? Probably just toss it out (the same as you would), and it will still count as yet another NT computer. They aren't going to mail it back to MS and say "please decrement one from your WinNT sales statistics". On the other hand, it does strike me that it might be a good idea to happen to mention FreeBSD while you're ordering a box. If they get a few dozen calls where people say "Wow, this will be a great box for running FreeBSD", that might cause Insight to think FreeBSD is an interesting thing. (I imagine anything that helps to sell equipment would be interesting to them... :-) - - - - In addition, here's a "thank you" to everyone who chipped in with encouraging background information on SMP and cpu-monitoring for this machine. I'll see about getting a second CPU sometime soon (like, in the next week or two), once I know what stepping level I will need to buy. This seems like it's going to work out very well for me, so of course I'm pretty happy about it... :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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