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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP Date: 2 Nov 1995 16:49:25 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 26 Message-ID: <47asql$bk2@helena.MT.net> References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> <46qqqp$gd8@news2.ios.com> <DH574H.HKA@ritz.mordor.com> <478qop$jd6@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <478qop$jd6@agate.berkeley.edu>, Scott MacFiggen <smurf@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >>Triton doesn't support parity either from what I'm told. > >You are corect, at least the Zappa doesn't support parity. >I take it this is necessary for FreeBSD? No, but some people consider 'parity' necessary for running things safely. Me, I would *prefer* parity, but I don't consider it a necessity. My Pentium has been running w/out parity and is *wonderful* running 2.1-stable. However, I had a 486/66 which had sub-par L2 cache chips, and under heavy load I would get NMI's due to parity errors which wouldn't show up on my Pentium if it was bad. So, parity was a win in that case. The moral of the story is to *make sure* you get good hardware. Find someone you trust and pay the little bit extra to get the good stuff instead of saving $150 over the cost of the entire package and regretting it later. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.