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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:20:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        wong@rogerswave.ca
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VIA Apollo chipset: Any experience yet?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.960919231655.8591J-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960919222123.458A-100000@wong.rogerswave.ca>

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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Ken Wong wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > > Does anyone have experience with VIA's Apollo chipset, which is directly
> > > competitive with Intel's Natoma?
> > 
> > No, but have you found a motherboard using this chipset?  I have been
> > wanting to bring it in for evaluation but have not had the time to hunt
> > down a board using it.
> >  
> First International Computer ( http://www.fic.com.tw ) is the VIA chipset
> and motherboard producer. PA-2005 motherboard seems to use VIA apollo.

Yeah, that's available on the web from Tom's page, but where to get
price/availability on these is the question.  Like to see performance
figures, using DIMMs too.  BTW, I _think_ the number is PA-6010.

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