[tech] (fwd) fs:(Melb) Penitum 200MMX (Socket 7)

Grahame Bowland gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Oct 30 11:36:37 WST 2000


On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:29:22AM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:10:15AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > Looks pretty good. How does this compare to the equivalent processor from 
> > CS for $300 with all the trimmings? We could grab one of those and make it 
> > mermaid, and then use the current mermaid as a console box?
> 
> Probably simpler to swap some bits and not bother reboxing, etc - the
> CPU and perhaps two 8MB for two 16MB SIMMs, making mermaid a 96MB
> P200-MMX and other a 48MB P133/P150. (was mermaid's CPU swapped to get
> rid of the FPU errors?  Last I remember it was running at 150MHz)

Mermaid has a 133Mhz Pentium we swapped in there to fix the floating point 
unit errors.

> The CS PCs probably can't cache more than 64MB of RAM anyway...
> 
> If the CS PCs fall through, yeah this P200MMX might be good (not a
> great price, but if we officially say "we are looking for a foo widget
> at <= $bar" then we can keep an eye out for donations / on newsgroups /
> at swap marts, etc. ).

We need to hold off on the CS PCs until after tommorow night, given that 
some people on committee aren't happy with the idea.

Cheers,
Grahame




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