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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
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	(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.
	
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