From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 14 16: 5:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F252615899 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tls@panix.com) Received: from panix7.panix.com (root@panix7.nyc.access.net [166.84.0.232]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id TAA26480; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:03:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tls@localhost) by panix7.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id TAA02405; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:05:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:05:42 -0400 From: Thor Lancelot Simon To: Jason Thorpe Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD (fwd) Message-ID: <19990414190542.A1460@rek.tjls.com> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com References: <199904142159.OAA15041@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199904142159.OAA15041@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>; from Jason Thorpe on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:59:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:59:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:26:25 -0400 > "Koscielny, Wally" wrote: > > > Since the special power supply is 100.00 I rather just spend the extra money > > and get a better board and a faster chip. > > ...except the PC164 has more memory bandwidth if you fill the SIMM > slots than the PC164LX. To me, the PC164 is a "better board" for that > reason :-) Not quite so notoriously buggy, either -- though that shouldn't be an issue with a late-production 164LX board. It occurs to me that there's quite a bit on these boards at "http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/models.html#EB164-family Systems" -- there's text there which Ross and I wrote which pretty much delineates the differences between all of the EB164-family OEM systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message