Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:17:06 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>, FreeBSD hackers list <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: opinions requested on new mainboard purchase Message-ID: <19980218131706.14884@mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <1462.887826942@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 10:35:42AM -0800 References: <xzp1zx03i4z.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <1462.887826942@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 10:35:42AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > But all this is really academic since, to the best of my knowledge, > > ASUSTek stopped producing T2P4 boards at least half a year ago. > > That reminds me... Anyone out there got a P54NP4 dual-Pentium > motherboard they want to donate to the FreeBSD Project? ;-) > > We wanted to build an SMP "spam box" for testing and got all the parts > together when we found out that our surplus P54NP4 board was actually > dead, so now we have everything ready but no motherboard, a quick > check of all the local stores also turning up the fact that nobody's > SELLING dual-Pentium mobos anymore so far as we're able to determine. > > Failing that we'll build a dual-P6 box since the P6/180 is a great > deal right now, but it seems sort of a waste of horsepower for a > machine which will spend most of its time powered off between > tests. ;-) > > Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Will an EISA MB work for you? I might be able to scrape one of those up, and they do work, although I've never tested the SNP code on FreeBSD against it - in Uniprocessor mode they are fine. Is the FreeBSD thing a 501c? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | NEW! K56Flex support on ALL modems Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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