[rescue] Odd SBUS cards - anyone want?

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sat Apr 8 18:40:12 CDT 2006


Tue, 04 Apr 2006 @ 19:11 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo said:

> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:21, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 
> > Ah.  I guess it could be interpreted that way.  I'd be a fool to say a
> > 64-but SMP machine that can take 2GB of memory isn't a "real computer",
> > though--unless, of course, it were one of those silly x86_64 systems
> > that still wakes up in DOS-compatible mode.
> 
> As long as you don't need memory write speed above 200MByte/s ... (PC100
> is about 500MByte/s).

...and that "silly" x86_64 is a hell of a lot faster than PC100... 

It has to be, since the cache often isn't worth crap... :)


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