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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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