Re: LILO - NT and Linux

Dave Mitchell (mitchell@ollie.ultranet.com)
26 Mar 1997 17:52:51 GMT

As far as Comtrade goes, my experience is with one P60 that someone at work
bought and I got the pleasure of repairing. For one thing it was an early
Pentium P60 and had the combo vlb/pci/isa bus setup. But the biggest
problem was lousy performance, that I had traced back to the internal and
external cache being disabled from the factory. I enabled it, and found
that the reason it was disabled was that the floppy disk wouldn't work with
either cache enabled. This didn't seem to be a fair deal for the customer
that was getting 486/66 performance for a then (high) pentium price. Any
way thats my 2 cents on Comtrade.

Alex Garner <lilo@lynx.net.au> wrote in article
<199703260444.PAA01399@vodka.lynx.net.au>...
> ----------
> > From: James L. McGill <fishbowl@fotd.netcomi.com>
> > To: SubbaRao V. Chitturi <subb3@ibm.net>
> > Cc: linux-config@vger.rutgers.edu
> > Subject: Re: LILO - NT and Linux
> > Date: Wednesday, 26 March 1997 4:08
> > >ps - Is anyone aware of Comtrade computers? How good are these
computers
> > >( reliability and performance )?
> >
> > If it has a brand name, it costs too much.
>
> The truth is so poetic at times *sigh*
>
> Alex!
>
> /777
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