From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 20:04:09 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com Subject: PC-clone hardware Topicbox-Message-UUID: 20309c10-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950906000409.91Z3dcVWuU4gf05658okaM7IoOvfxhn9KG7H3N7gPY4@z> This is a little out of my experience, but if I had to buy a 486 motherboard I'd look for one that would take a DX4-100 and even one of the new Cyrix M1sc chips (i.e. handles 3.3V CPUs). Plus I'd opt for a PCI+ISA board with I/O on the motherboard (I think only AIR makes a 486 MB with PCI+EISA). SIS or Intel chipset should be OK. Our only other experience with 486 motherboards has been Micronics in some old Gateways. There have been troubles there with the Phoenix BIOS and accessing the BIOS ROM areas from Plan 9, but that's probably because we don't make any attempt to work out the 8/16-bit BIOS stuff. The OS/2 and Linux newsgroups probably have some useful information. ------ original message follows ------ >>From cse.psu.edu!9fans-outgoing-owner Tue Sep 5 00:31:11 EDT 1995 Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <45513>; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 00:23:50 -0400 Received: from cannon.ecf.toronto.edu ([128.100.8.5]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <45529>; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 00:19:29 -0400 Received: by cannon.ecf.toronto.edu id <927>; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 00:14:25 -0400 From: Steve Kotsopoulos To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: PC-clone hardware Message-Id: <95Sep5.001425edt.927@cannon.ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 00:14:24 -0400 Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In "What We Use - Last Updated 1-Aug-95", it says: > Until recently we've used the AMI Enterprise IV: What have you been using recently? I'm thinking of getting a 486DX2-66, with 256K cache, but I haven't been able to find any AMI motherboards around here yet. One store I visited told me "the brand of motherboard is usually stated as the brand of CPU on it", which doesn't jive with the above document since it lists an SiS chipset on the AMI board. What's more important to look for, the motherboard or cpu manufacturer? Intel and AMD seem to be popular in the local stores here, which of those two would people recommend? The variety in PC hardware scares me - sorry if these are basic questions.