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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:03:30 -0500
From:      Chris Csanady <cc@137.org>
To:        tls@rek.tjls.com
Cc:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <19990415010330.E8E72122@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:05:42 EDT." <19990414190542.A1460@rek.tjls.com> 

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>On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:59:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:26:25 -0400 
>>  "Koscielny, Wally" <Wally.Koscielny@gs.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  > Since the special power supply is 100.00 I rather just spend the extra mo
ney
>>  > 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.

Actually, even on the later revision boards I think the PCI is broken with
the LX.  I believe it was fixed on the miatas, but even the rev c alphapc's
are still broke.

Chris




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