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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD and EISA machines
Date: 27 Sep 1996 10:11:08 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <324ac5e5.4422121@news.tiac.net>,
Margaret Tarbet <tarbet@swaa.com> wrote:
> maybe it was only a contention, that FBSD doesn't really take
> advantage of EISA address space; that anything over 16Mb
> is just as useless as under DOS. I wish i could go back and
I own an 486DX4/100 EISA machine with two EISA cards, a Buslogic BT-747S
and an Adaptec 1740A since 1993. FreeBSD does use EISA specific address
space and don't require bounce buffers for EISA, unless you have an early
broken motherboard. I have 32 MB of memory and I can guarantee that all of
them are used...
I am very happy with it (even if EISA is now almost dead) and am able to
outperform some Pentium machines easily in term of I/O (especially if one
has an IDE drive -- blech).
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