From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 9 08:11:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26783 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 08:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hellcat.umd.edu (hellcat.umd.edu [129.2.70.125]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26763 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 08:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from maryann.eng.umd.edu (maryann.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.22]) by hellcat.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA12419; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:11:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by maryann.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.6.4) with SMTP id LAA13750; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:11:16 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: maryann.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:11:16 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@maryann.eng.umd.edu To: Andreas Klemm cc: dg@root.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 [ was Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge ] In-Reply-To: <19970309133012.58367@klemm.gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: > I think I will choose the Tyan Titan Pro with one or two processors, > because our hardware manufacturer has a good contact to Tyan. If > there is something bad with the board I'd have a good chance to get > it exchanged ... > > And what about Ram ? I think 60ns EDO Ram with parity is currently > best buy ... Although I like the idea to get fast SDRAM, but I fear, > that this isn't currently supported by the Natoma Chipset. > > Another draw back is, that the board wouldn't support the K6 Chip. You seem to be interested in SMP, so I will post this warning, CPUs other than the Intel don't use Intel's IOAPIC design. Both the FreeBSD software, and all available support chipsets in multiprocessor boards like the Titan Pro, only support the Intel IOAPIC. If you get the K6, then give up the notion of 2 processors. It won't fly. > Does somebody know a Pentium Pro Mainboard (single or dual processor) > that supports SDRAM and K6 Processors ? > > Or for what would I have to wait ... ;-) > > -- > andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH > Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de > pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------