Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news.gun.de!wup-gate.wup.de!andreas From: andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,de.comp.os.unix,de.comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel Zappa board vs. Asus P55... Followup-To: comp.benchmarks,de.comp.os.unix,de.comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 15 Aug 1995 12:04:46 GMT Organization: Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH, D-40789 Monheim Lines: 22 Message-ID: <40q2gu$h5j@wup-gate.wup.de> References: <3vvtun$cs@knobel.gun.de> <408gtl$r3m@news.cloud9.net> <40d3ov$l6t@zv.zv.fhg.de> <40ellv$san@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <40fc2j$17h@trauma.rn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.wup.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.benchmarks:7880 de.comp.os.unix:306 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4414 Larry Snyder (larry@rn.com) wrote: : In article <40ellv$san@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, : > No, as I understand it, the Triton chipset cannot cache anything : >beyond 64 megabytes of RAM. I don't believe it has to do with the : >amount of cache installed (256K, 512K or 1 meg). What someone needs : >to come up with is a Pentium/P6 board that can take at least a 150-MHz : >CPU, accomodate up to 4 megabytes of L2, 8 memory slots (SIMM, DIMM, : >EDO, holocube, whatever) for at least 512 megs of RAM, a chipset that : >can cache all of that, and 6 PCI slots (and maybe one ISA slot). Then : >I could jam in 3 PCI disk controllers, 2 100-Mbps NIC's, a Mach64 or : >#9 PCI graphics card, and a sound card in the ISA slot. Oh, twin : >16550 serial ports and a parallel port should already be on the : >motherboard. :) Could anyone with such a product please contact me : >at taob@io.org. :) : and how much would you be willing to pay for this motherboard? I only would (could) pay attention ;-)) Cheers ;-)) -- andreas@wup.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix -