> i plan to buy a dual pentium II board.
> a cheap solution seems to be the gigabyte 686BXD with bx chipset. is this
> a board you would recomment for linux smp usage? is it stable?
I rnn the with scsi version here, ATM I have had a slight disaster with a
scsi disk somehow blowing up the board, apart from that very stable and
quick.
> i read about some APIC things (speedup because the 2nd cpu can handle
> IRQs, too!?) is this somewhere explained? does the 686BXD have such an
> APIC?
Yes is has APIC
> are there big differences between dual boards with bx chipsets ins speed,
> compatiblity?
pass
Tim Fletcher .~.
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