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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: FreeBSD system Message-ID: <1994Apr28.140623.9021@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <1994Apr20.155710.2992@palantir.p.tvt.se> <5O+tb8n.dysonj@delphi.com> <CotA5p.30u@pegasus.com> <2pmi6n$44k@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 14:06:22 +0000 Lines: 20 In article <2pmi6n$44k@u.cc.utah.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >Seriously, the previous poster was not blowing smoke when they said that >EISA is more solid. I expect EISA to have 3-6 months of continued >dominance, and that in 6-9 months it will die out in favor of PCI. The >main problem with PCI is that people like Gateway have rev'ed to the new >Saturn chipset, but still have not updated all their motherboards (the >486 motherboards have been rev'ed, but not their P5-60), so they still >can't do cache-writeback correctly (the fix for the old Saturn involved >hacking the hardware itself). And you've got to be careful to avoid buying >old stock of now-working motherboards (ie: old chipset/workaround) or pay >a hefty (~50%) performance penalty. Does anyone know anything about the new 90Mhz pentium motherboards. They're 3.3v boards and my dealer says he'll have one in the next few weeks. I'm quite keen to get one but I'd like to know if these things work or not. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@UK.AC.CARDIFF