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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pentium Pro Machines?
Organization: Pegasus Information Systems
Message-ID: <DJEGxC.LD1@pegasus.com>
References: <4a6tbk$gmv@nyx.eos.hokudai.ac.jp> <4a89ld$4go@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 02:15:12 GMT
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>We have tested FreeBSD 2.1 on the P6 (I refuse to call it the
>Pentium Pro, sorry :-) and it works just fine.  In fact, ftp.cdrom.com
>will become a 200Mhz P6 system (based around the new P6 MB from ASUS) just
>as soon as the parts we've ordered arrive.  More on this topic once
>that happens and we've had a chance to beat on the configuration a little.
>
>					Jordan

Is this to be yet another machine without parity ram?   :-(


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com