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Date:     Fri, 12 Nov 93 20:13:09 EST
Subject:  Linux-Activists Digest #370

Linux-Activists Digest #370, Volume #6           Fri, 12 Nov 93 20:13:09 EST

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  Re: Linux and i486 (Gregory Ade)

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From: tempest@camelot.bradley.edu (Gregory Ade)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,aus.computers.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux and i486
Date: 11 Nov 1993 10:18:00 -0600

matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan) writes:

>One comment is that 50 MHz is too fast for VLB, if you care about 
>such things.  Anyway it seems as though the DX2-66 is the better
>bet.  Here is an old item off the bsdi-users mailing list.

Not necessarily...
I have a friend running a VESA-VLB system pushed by an i486DX-50.
He's got a video card in the VLB slot, and his disk controller, too, i
think...  Anyway, he hasn't run into any major problems with it...
No problems at all so far, in fact.

[tech info deleted]

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