Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 05:13:10 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: mac@nibsc.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any Pentium Pro MB recommendations? Message-ID: <199605021213.FAA11983@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 1996 13:02:41 BST." <199605021202.NAA04591@chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk>
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>>From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> >>Subject: Re: Any Pentium Pro MB recommendations? >>To: angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen) >>Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 18:49:50 +0930 (CST) >>Cc: steve@gordian.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >>Unless something drastic has happened in the last few months, there are >>_no_ decent P6 motherboards generally available. The 'Alder' chassis >>is a special Intel Server Group product, and is AFAIK not generally >>available. > >IIRC ftp.cdrom.com (the busiest site on the 'net for ftp) uses FreeBSD on a >PentiumPro. Any one know what their m/board is? > >I would look at their web site if the US-Uk links weren't so appalinging slow. 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. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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