From: hellers@cs.wisc.edu (Joe Hellerstein) Subject: Re: Local bus Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:00:00 GMT
In article <1992Sep30.181053.3312@cs.hw.ac.uk> scottd@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Dunn) writes:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone tell me if local bus motherboards work OK with linux?
> Also, what would be better - 33Mhz 486 local bus motherboard
> - 50 Mhz 486 without local bus
>
I'm running linux on a 486/33 local bus (32-bit video & IDE/floppy
controller) made by HD systems. It works fine.
> What sort of performance gains would I get in X with a local bus vidio
> card or hard drive controller?
Well, video and disk access will be faster (surprise, surprise.) If
you do lots of compute-bound tasks, you won't notice any speedup. If
you do a typical mix of activities, you will find significant speedup.
I'd go with the slower chip and local bus (in fact I did...), since a
lot of the average user's time in spent in disk access and display.
Joe Hellerstein