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From: tarbet@swaa.com (Margaret Tarbet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Best EISA m'board?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:53:29 GMT
Organization: Software Art & Architecture Incorporated
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My current dev machine is a 466 EISA box. I'm planning to
replace the mamaboard with one that supports Pentium
chips, prolly 90 - 133 MHz parts because they're pretty
cheap. (My 466 board will then go into my comm server).
There are several EISA mamaboards available (all
supporting dual processors, for some reason). My question
is: has anyone done any research to determine which are
the best (fastest, most stable) boards and which the worst?
Even anecdotal info ("I use the Foo mb and it seems pretty
fast/slow/buggy") would be helpful.
(fwiw: I had Unixware and fBSD 2.0 running on this box and
while UW ran pretty fast, fBSD seemed relatively slow, and
i don't quite know why...it should have been the faster. But
both ran acceptably. This is a so-called "AIR" brand (really
just a nameless Taiwanese clone with a paper label on.))
=margaret