Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:57:11 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Bror 'Count' Heinola" <count@key.hole.fi> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium Pro question Message-ID: <199607012057.XAA06284@key.hole.fi> In-Reply-To: <199607011524.IAA19697@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 1, 96 08:24:16 am
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Rodney W. Grimes taisi sanoa: > > If you go P6RP4 make darn sure that you have the B0 or later chipset, > anything before that will fail misserably with the 100Mbs ethernet > card. Thank you, I'll call them tomorrow and ask some more about their boards. Would it be reasonable to go with a Pentium 166 and Triton-II board instead of an early Orion, given the tasks the computer is supposed to be doing? ie. heavy on I/O, not much CPU required. > I wish I had more data on the Natoma chipset, but that only comes with > time. Yeah, information usually becomes available after it's been obsolete for a while. -- Bror 'Count' Heinola % count@key.hole.fi % http://pobox.com/~count/ Pengerkatu 13b A5 % IRC: Count NIC: BH271 % FI-00530 HELSINKI % Work: bror@sms.fi % Roads? Where we're going, Cell: +358-40-5533-554 % Santa Monica Software % we don't need roads.
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