From: coop@panix.com (Robert Cooper) Subject: Re: [Q] Comments on my configuration of PC please... Date: 28 Sep 1993 13:58:09 -0400
In <1993Sep22.204413.18853@anasazi.com> rusty@anasazi.com (Rusty Carruth) writes:
>In article <27n1fq$hf4@crl.crl.com> mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) writes:
>>Taek-Soo Kim (tkim@zonker.ecs.umass.edu) wrote:
>>: After some survey and recommendation, I decided to purchase
>>: the following PC. Any comments would be very helpful.
>>
>>: 486-DX2 66 (Comtrade)
>>: EISA
>>: 16MB RAM
>>: Adaptec 1742 scsi-2 controller
>>: 545MB HD
>>: Orchid Fahrenheit 1280+ or VA (32bit VLB) with 1MB.
>>: 17" Monitor (MAG or CTX).
>>
Just check to see what chipset they use on the motherboard. They last
time I looked at comtrade, they only used the Hint chipset for eisa,
which is not "true" eisa. See the unix hardware faq for more details.
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