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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...
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Date: 15 Aug 1995 12:04:46 GMT
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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 ;-))

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