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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:57:11 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      "Bror 'Count' Heinola" <count@key.hole.fi>
To:        rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pentium Pro question
Message-ID:  <199607012057.XAA06284@key.hole.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199607011524.IAA19697@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 1, 96 08:24:16 am

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Rodney W. Grimes taisi sanoa:
> 
> If you go P6RP4 make darn sure that you have the B0 or later chipset,
> anything before that will fail misserably with the 100Mbs ethernet
> card.

	Thank you, I'll call them tomorrow and ask some more about
	their boards. 

	Would it be reasonable to go with a Pentium 166 and Triton-II
	board instead of an early Orion, given the tasks the computer 
	is supposed to be doing? ie. heavy on I/O, not much CPU required.

> I wish I had more data on the Natoma chipset, but that only comes with
> time.

	Yeah, information usually becomes available after it's been
	obsolete for a while.


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