Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 22:57:04 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970412224903.9830A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199704120117.SAA07293@rah.star-gate.com>
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Sorry, I snipped the CC: list quite a bit... - hope no one get offended On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > >From The Desk Of "David Langford" : > > Main point is that I think even motherboard makers could be more helpful > > in improving memory usage. I would pay a premium for a high bandwidth > > motherboard, but I dont see a point in spending $750 for motherboards that > > perform just like the $200 boards... > > > It is call lets charge to the hilt for our hardware mistakes . > > Oh, Don't forget that 64bit PCI based motherboards have not come out yet > so guess what? 8) Well, there are at least for PowerPC - the Motorola Atlas(?)/ MTX motherboard has one 64bit slot and 2 32-bit slots. I guess all that is needed for a PC chipset having 64 bit PCI is a CPU-host controller, interfacing anything else (including ISA?) to it using Digitals 64/64 and 64/32 PCI bridges. Sander > > Cheers, > Amancio > > >
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