19 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hardwareRe: supermicro p6sns/p6sas | From | Sent On | Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| Craig Johnston | May 16, 1997 12:42 pm | |
| Tom Jackson | Sep 26, 1997 12:30 pm | |
| Tony Kimball | Sep 26, 1997 1:07 pm | |
| Tom Jackson | Sep 27, 1997 8:40 pm | |
| Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com | Sep 27, 1997 10:16 pm | |
| Sean Eric Fagan | Sep 27, 1997 10:35 pm | |
| Tony Kimball | Sep 28, 1997 3:21 pm | |
| Tom | Sep 28, 1997 7:57 pm | |
| Ben Bryan | Sep 28, 1997 8:49 pm | |
| Tony Kimball | Sep 29, 1997 8:04 am | |
| Tom | Sep 29, 1997 10:55 am | |
| Tony Kimball | Sep 29, 1997 11:13 am | |
| Kedar | Sep 29, 1997 11:27 am | |
| John T. Farmer | Sep 29, 1997 11:08 pm | |
| Tom | Sep 29, 1997 11:49 pm | |
| Doug Russell | Sep 30, 1997 12:35 am | |
| John T. Farmer | Sep 30, 1997 5:57 am | |
| Tony Kimball | Sep 30, 1997 8:57 am | |
| Narvi | Sep 30, 1997 1:02 pm |
| Subject: | Re: supermicro p6sns/p6sas | |
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| From: | Tom (to...@sdf.com) | |
| Date: | Sep 29, 1997 10:55:45 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hardware | |
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Tony Kimball wrote:
...
: I'm little dubious about how well AMD : can make it work. K6, due to bugs, was unable to run FreeBSD reliably up : until a few weeks ago (see archives about which stepping are known to : work, and which are not).
And we all know that Intel has had no major Pentium or PPro bugs?
Nothing that affected FreeBSD anyhow, and FreeBSD uses a wide variety of features.
(BIG smiley face on that one.) Frankly I don't see any reasonable argument to the effect that AMD or Cyrix are less technically competent than Intel -- quite the contrary, given track records (and the fact that the AMD/Cyrix task is much more difficult than the Intel task).
Intel's real competition is not AMD and Cyrix, but DEC, Sparc (Sun), MIPS (SGI), and Motorola/IBM.
: Also, you can use socket 8 processors in a slot 1 with an adapter.
Where can I learn about this?
I'm not sure. I've seen pictures of it, and the PII motherboards I've seen have instructions for installing and using the socket 8 -> slot 1 adapter.
Tom