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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 13:43:28 -0600
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   good deal on hardware
Message-ID:  <199805221943.NAA03672@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>

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Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:50:36 -0400
To: current@freebsd.org
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
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Okay.  For those who can't seem to find the machine I'm talking about
at insight, the URL is:

http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/1480860161/web/technote.html?a=f&f=p&d=TODT10
2
6U

More details on the machine are at:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Home.woa/-/Product.wo?component=K
e
yFeatures&partNumber=PV1026U-01A&from=Business

although that doesn't mention that the machine uses the PR440FX
motherboard (and the deal from insight does not include any monitor).

I just ordered a second one of these $800 boxes yesterday, and I think
they still have a thousand left in stock (that's with just the single
PPro, of course, for SMP you'd have to buy another processor).  I
imagine it is to my advantage to have many many of these sold to
freebsd folks, as it will increase the number of people interested
in freebsd support for them  :-)
  - - -
But I really was interested in whether there's anything I need to
watch out for when buying the second processor, in case I want to try
for SMP in the fall, and whether there's a way to read the temperature
sensors inside the box while freebsd is running.  If not, would it be
hard to add that, and where would I start looking for details on how
those sensors work from a programming standpoint?  (hmm, maybe intel's
web site would have something...).


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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