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Date:      Tue, 06 Aug 1996 20:50:33 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
To:        Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com>
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: P6 Natoma chipset 
Message-ID:  <199608070350.UAA21032@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 06 Aug 96 12:56:42 -0500. <Pine.SGI.3.93.960806124725.9417A-100000@dympna> 

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>I've got a Dual CPU Natoma board (OEM Microsatar) with one CPU.  It runs
[...]
>On a side note:
>I noticed a program (DOS) called VIDSPEED which enables several features
>(write posting and write combining) for the orion that appear to work with
>the Natoma.  Under DOS they've increased PCI graphics card throughput from
>25M(pixel/byte?)/sec to 75M(pixel/byte?)/sec.  I believe that
>this is actually generic to the PCI bus and not just the graphics 
>card.  I was wondering if anyone seen the critter and docs and if this
>could be (or already is) included in Free/NetBSD.

I believe a decent current BIOS should be able to do this.  I just
ordered the SuperMicro Dual P6 board (with one 200MHz CPU).  Well see
when it arrives. :-)

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