Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:25:20 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: john@goodleaf.net, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT-DDR hardware? Message-ID: <39F4ACC0.2AF73129@cybercable.fr> References: <200010232053.e9NKrGh04777@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > I'm getting interested in the x86 again. The new Micron DDR RAM chipset is > > looking kind of cool, and since I'm seeing prices for DDR that are hardly > > higher than for conventional SDRAM, I might indulge in such as system. > > > > How's FreeBSD looking with regard to the this new memory standard (if I may > > use the word)? > > Why would FreeBSD care? It's just memory. 8) > > Seriously; there's less than no chance that a new memory standard would > require any software support with the market the way it is. Legacy > compatibility is *everything*. > drifting one little more from the original topic : Does someone in the FreeBSD project have any information about the "just about to arrive" new SMP chipset from AMD ? (760MP IIRC) I'm quite satisfied with a lowly BP6, but I'd like to get another gadget and I would prefer not sending any money to Intel. Cheers TfH -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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