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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news.halcyon.com!evt-pm1-ip9 From: ameoba@halcyon.com (ameoba) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: New Computer... Date: 10 Jun 1996 05:19:50 GMT Organization: petri dish liberation front Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4pg0u7$ljg_001@evt-pm1-ip9.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: evt-pm1-ip9.halcyon.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Well, since I'm going off to college next year, my family has decided to buy me a new computer, on which I plan to install FreeBSD (and Windows NT, just cause it will come in handy...) but the big question is, which would be better, all other things equal: a P5 w/SCSI or a P6 w/ EIDE drives? Either way, I'll be getting 32 megs of ram, some PCI video card, a 10/100 PCI enthernet card, and a 2 gig hard-drive. I know that SCSI is much better than IDE, especially when multitasking, but the P6 is better than the P5 w/ 32 bit software... Oh, what should I do? Thanks.. -ameoba ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Friends, this is clean-up time and we're discounting all out silent electric Ubiks by this much money. Yes, we're throwing away the blue- book. And remember: every Ubik on our lot has been used only as directed