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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pentium Pro Machines?
Date: 16 Dec 1995 09:21:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <4a6tbk$gmv@nyx.eos.hokudai.ac.jp> <4a89ld$4go@agate.berkeley.edu> <DJEGxC.LD1@pegasus.com>
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In article <DJEGxC.LD1@pegasus.com>, Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com> wrote:
[talking about a P6]
>Is this to be yet another machine without parity ram?   :-(

Nope!  Happily, this machine supports parity and full caching of the
256MB of memory (as opposed to Triton, which only cached 64MB out of
128MB).

Check out the specs for the motherboard at:

	 http://asustek.asus.com.tw/Products/P6/pi-p6rp4.html

So far it seems to be performing very well, and a `make world' of 2.1-RELEASE
completes in just over 2 hours from a standing start (clean /usr/obj).

We hope to have it up and serving between 500-600 users (if not more, we're
going to start conservatively for obvious reasons) at ftp.cdrom.com in another
week or so.

					Jordan