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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech2!nntp.msstate.edu!Isis.MsState.Edu!aak2 From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pentium Pro Machines? Date: 10 Dec 1995 15:21:30 -0600 Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <aak2.818630405@Isis.MsState.Edu> References: <4a6tbk$gmv@nyx.eos.hokudai.ac.jp> <4a89ld$4go@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: isis.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >We have tested FreeBSD 2.1 on the P6 (I refuse to call it the >Pentium Pro, sorry :-) and it works just fine. In fact, ftp.cdrom.com >will become a 200Mhz P6 system (based around the new P6 MB from ASUS) just >as soon as the parts we've ordered arrive. More on this topic once >that happens and we've had a chance to beat on the configuration a little. > Jordan Why the ASUS motherboard ? Why not the Intel motherboard ? Does ASUS offer something Intel doesn't ? Thanks. Atif Khan aak2@ra.msstate.edu