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From: larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,de.comp.os.unix,de.comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Zappa board vs. Asus P55...
Date: 11 Aug 1995 10:40:19 -0000
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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?