Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 10:54:33 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: davidg@root.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any Pentium Pro MB recommendations? Message-ID: <9605021454.AA04731@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605021213.FAA11983@Root.COM> References: <199605021202.NAA04591@chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk> <199605021213.FAA11983@Root.COM>
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<<On Thu, 02 May 1996 05:13:10 -0700, David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> said: > It's an Intel Alder SMP system with 1 CPU. It is on loan to us from Intel > and as far as I know, is not currently for sale. The "B" stepping of the Orion > with the PCI write buffer fixed should be available now. I don't know if > anyone is making a motherboard with the fixed chipset on it yet, however. We have a gaggle (well, four) of Intel PPro systems with the fixed Orion chipset (remember to get the /server/ version, I think that's -KX...?). We got them for free from Intel, however, so I don't know if the motherboard in them is actually being sold on the open market right now. I am right now running Satoshi's bcopy comparisons on this machine. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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