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Date:      Mon, 02 Oct 1995 00:05:46 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
To:        Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net>
Cc:        Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A moment in the life of ftp.cdrom.com 
Message-ID:  <5707.812588746@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 1995 18:24:15 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951001182402.28225C-100000@aries.ai.net> 

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<Pine.BSF.3.91.951001182402.28225C-100000@aries.ai.net>:
>> > The irony is that if we could only fit more than 128MB of memory into
>> > this beast we could do even more..  I wonder if anyone from Intel is
>> > listening?  Guys!  We need a decent motherboard with room for more
>> > memory, please! please! :-)

>What happened to the old motherboard with 192MB of RAM?

Being a neptune chipset it couldn't support the numberof bus-mastering
PCI controllers that we wanted (3 scsi cards, 1 ether card). I seem to
remember we even had problems getting 2 2940's to work in it at the
same time...

The new m/b only has 4 simm slots, but it has better PCI support.

Gary




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