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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!esmeralda.access.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news13.agis.net!agis!newspeer1.agis.net!agis!news1.agis.net!agis!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.prd.nomura.co.uk!news-server From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freeBSD and P6/180 Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 15:09:42 +0000 Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3281FBB6.133@metrosol.demon.co.uk> References: <32784DB5.2BDE@sybase.com> <h1LxvFQ.smartsignal@delphi.com> <57sp6oobnd.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> <3280D2FC.28D5@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.201.66.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Ken Bigelow wrote: > > Paul Richards wrote: > > > > Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com> writes: > > > > > > > > Taras Dowhaluk <tarasd@sybase.com> writes: > > > > > > >The planned (but not yet purchased) hardware is > > > > PentiumPro 180MHZ, > > > > You don't want a cpu at that speed either, make sure it's a multiple > > of 33 1/3 (roughly). > > Now you've got me puzzled. What's wrong with a multiple of 40 or 50 MHz > (always assuming the motherboard can run at one or the other of thoses > speeds)? I would expect that a higher motherboard speed would be > desirable, too. > > Could it be that the motherboard is expected to clock at 60 MHz for the > PP180? That would make more sense to me than running a 30 MHz clock and > a 6X multiplier. The secret is getting the fastest CPU with the fastest PCI BUS. Check out Intels web pages for information. Steve