Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:37:53 -0500 From: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.mv.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Intel Endeavor Message-ID: <199511282037.PAA00853@snoopy.mv.com>
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You guys are going to love this one.. >From the folks that brought you the infamous FDIV bug. We have a brandy new Pentium 120 Mhz system that our customer (USAF) bought (from Austin Direct) to demo our software. The motherboard, an Intel Endeavor I am told, has three ISA slots in the lower left and a CPU chip on the lower right positioned so that it is directly in line with the slots, such that a full length card in any slot will sit on top of the CPU. OK so far. Now there is this nifty little heat sink fan on top of the CPU to keep it from melting. The fan protrudes 0.25 inch above the ISA slots such that it is impossible to insert a full length card unless it is notched to clear the fan! Naturally the critial application card (a Spectrum Signal Processing quad TMS320C31 board) is not so notched. Dang! Is anyone aware of some PC AT spec that limits the bottom dimension of a full width card? Did the engineer who made the FPU get demoted to motherboard design? Who is the bozo in this case? Paul -------------- Paul Werkowski ANSI Common Lisp on Intel? pw@snoopy.mv.com http://www.mv.com/users/pw/lisp
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