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From: rcarter@shellx.best.com (Russell Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ALR Pentium Pro and FreeBSD?
Date: 2 May 1996 10:57:00 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications
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In article <DqpGnK.7DE@ritz.mordor.com>,
Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:
>Sam Sapoznick (ssapozni@photon.lib.uci.edu) wrote:
>: I'd like to buy an ALR Evolution Dual6 Pentium Pro to run FreeBSD on. Has any
>: one used ALR Pentium Pro-class machines to run FreeBSD? Are there any 
>: general conflicts between FreeBSD and the P6?
>: 
>: Here are more specific specs. 
>: 
>: The Dual 6 comes with one processor, with a slot for a second processor. Can
>: FreeBSD use the second processor efficiently, or at all?
>: 
>: The chipset is Intel 82450KX (OrionDT) PCI.
>: BIOS is Phoenix Upgradeable Flash BIOS
>: 
>: Thanks very much.
>
>Unless Intel is shipping fixed orion chipsets you're going to find
>yourself limited to about 4mb/sec of cpu to memory bandwidth...yech.
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                      PCI controller to memory

>You'll probably get much better performance out of a P166 on a Triton-
>based (or Triton II if you can find one) motherboard.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris
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