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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
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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