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From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly)
To: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel, AMD, or Cyrix? (FreeBSD-related hardware question)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:43:55 GMT
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:34:54 -0500, Brian McGovern
<bmcgover@cisco.com> wrote:

>Ok, time to start a holy war, but as I just dumped some money in to
>some new Intel pentium VX2 motherboards, I want to get the best
>processing bang for the buck.

>I'm going to be running FreeBSD on both VX2 motherboards

Speaking of holy wars, will you run FreeBSD on a motherboard which
does not support memory parity?  Is a VX2 different from a VX in this
respect?

Do Cisco routers use non-parity memory and chipsets?

John