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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.hardware:1083 comp.sys.next.hardware:14505 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4949 comp.os.os2.misc:121981 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.ualr.edu!major.cei.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!nweaver From: nweaver@madrone.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nicholas C. Weaver) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Purchasing a P90... Followup-To: poster Date: 19 Jan 1995 00:41:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3fkcg2$l0r@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: madrone.cs.berkeley.edu (followup set to poster, if your newsreader can't handle this, reply in email. If requested, I will summarize my responses) I'm planning on purchasing a P90 system which will run Dos/Windows/OS2 and later on, a Unix operating system (either FreeBSD, Linux, or possibly NeXTstep). My plans are for a PCI motherboard, w 16MB memory (will upgrade later) and probably around 1gb of disk. Any words on motherboard or bios of importance? For video, I'm thinking of a Diamond Stealth64 (with VRAM upgradable to 4MB) PCI. Is this suitable? Are there other good alternatives? Monitor will be 15" with 1208x1024 max resolution, any advice on that end? I'm probably going to use Adaptec for SCSI. However, is it worth the extra money getting a PCI scsi controller over an EISA? I already have a Sony based SCSI CD-ROM. -- Nicholas C. Weaver nweaver@orodruin.cs.berkeley.edu It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing Fun with anagrams: computer science -> coerce inept scum