Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 02:23:16 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ASUS www mirror Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950412020915.27404e-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <199504111707.KAA03963@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> And every one keeps droping the PCI/I- or PVI- or PCI/E- off the front
> of these part numbers, this is just as bad :-(.
Well, I'm just lazy. :-P :)
> I haven't done any of the PVI-486AP4 boards so I don't know how
> fast they are compared to the PCI/I-486SP3G, does your board
> require simms to be installed in pairs or can you install just
> 1 72 pin simm and have it work. If the later you lost quite a
> bit in memory performance compared to the PCI/I-486SP3G as the
> latter is about the only board I have seen lately that uses
> memory interleaving to get real performance out of a 486 chip.
Argh... I just submitted a spec sheet for three more 486-based
FreeBSD machines to four dealers for bidding, and I had put down the
PVI-486AP4 board. It does not require memory in pairs like the SP3G.
Is real-world operationg noticeably faster? Compiling? Redrawing
hidden windows? Grepping text? Running LaTeX? I'll inquire about
the availability of the SP3G again and see if the extra cost is
justified.
Hey, ASUS finally updated their Web site... it actually shows
their Chinese name now. I had incredible difficulty getting any
information about ASUS when I first arrived. I only knew their
Anglicized name, and everyone else only knew their Chinese name. ;-)
Anyhow... have you tried the PCI/I-P55TP4 or PCI/I-P55TP4XE Pentium
boards with FreeBSD? How do they work? I may need to spec out one or
two Pentium FreeBSD systems soon.
> The PVI-486SP3 looks to be a bad choice of motherboards for
> Unix, it only accepts 2 simms total :-(.
I heard the SiS (?) chipset it uses has some problems too.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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