Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 19:09:54 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium II-266Mhz Message-ID: <199705232309.TAA20798@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970523092557.HX00614@uriah.heep.sax.de> (j@uriah.heep.sax.de)
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>> I'm probably going to get a local bus machine next. If I can find VLB >> cards, that is... >> (running 2.1.5-Release on a 386/33, humming along nicely...) > Better get EISA, it's not that crappy as VLB. Getting EISA on my 486 (in '93) is probably the only decision on that computer I regret. (I sometimes waver on the monitor issue... it's a Socos that is now giving me problems with the horizontal sync timing.) My use of SCSI (not an IDE controller in the box!), the 3Com card, CD-ROM, VLB ET4000, the Intel chip (now replaced by an AMD that I got for a song), everything has turned out quite good, and I've managed to get average P-90 performance out of a 486 by using good components and good hand-tuning. But the EISA just doesn't do it. EISA is a great bus, don't get me wrong. But it's expensive, cards are few and far between, and with PCI becoming ubiquitous nowdays then it lost the role it may have had. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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