Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:13:46 -1000 (HST) From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com> To: brian@mpress.com (Brian Litzinger) Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more on Tyan motherboard changes Message-ID: <199704240013.OAA05988@caliban.dihelix.com> In-Reply-To: <19970423164614.12120@mpress.com> from Brian Litzinger at "Apr 23, 97 04:46:14 pm"
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>TYAN's Talon AT utilizes Intel's newest and fastest Pentium Pro chipset, >the 440FX PCIset. It has eight PCI slots (four bus master and four >I2O-compliant) and three ISA slots, which allows room for PCI expansion >and support for older cards. This full size (13"x12") AT board includes >eight 72-pin SIMM sockets with support for a maximum of 1GB EDO or FPM >DRAM. > >The Talon AT features Intel's i960 I2O processor with Wind River >Systems' IxWorks RT Operating System installed to implement the I2O >architecture. I2O is a new architecture that is being promoted by Intel >and others to improve I/O performance by offloading I/O interruptions >to free the server's CPU for applications processing. TYAN is a member >of the I2O SIG which is spearheading the development of the standard. >Novell, Microsoft, and The Santa Cruz Operation are among those >developing I2O compliant upgrades to their operating systems. Boy this sounds like IBM's older RT machines. With the virtual machines and such. Or is this more like Sequents I/O system (where all I/O goes through a special board and get bottleneck there instead. >on-board switching voltage regulator; and on-board PCI EIDE. It also has >Super I/O for maximum performance, enabling it to utilize a wide variety Did they mean it has super I/O or "Super I/O(TM)" ? And what would that mean. Interesting. -David Langford langfod@dihelix.com
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