[KLUG Members] Dual Pentium Pros

[Richard Zimmerman]

> Gateway should be lashed to the side of a mountain with vultures gnawing
> on it's liver for the rest of eternity.
> The largest assembly of morons that humanity has every managed to gather
> under one root.  A real accomplishment,  I mean they have pretty stiff
> competition with organizations like Ameritech vying for that prize.

   Gee, you don't happen to dislike Gateway do you? <BG>

> Any word on when official support will happen?

   AMD will only officially support Athalon MP processors on an MP board.
Anything else - You take the risk!

> >option myself. (HOME use, NOT office)
> Yep, keep the AMDs at home.

   You missed my point. I'll deploy a AMD system here in the office BEFORE
an Intel ANY day of the week. I've had VERY good luck with AMD's. My
origional point (maybe not clearly stated enough) was I'll run an
"non-sponsored" setup at home but the office get only "Official" setups.

   All of my Linux boxes are running AMD's and not one problem with any of
them (that I haven't created myself <sigh>).

> Not to mention spurious lock-ups, potentially damaged hardware, etc...

   Agreed.

> With enclosures availabel on E-bay (some with dual PS) real cheap I
> strongly recommend SCSI equipment in external cabinets.  Much greater
> expandability, less heat in the case, etc...  Let the computers PS power
> the computer, and the drive cabinet's PS power the drivers, and the tape
> drive's PS power the tape drive, etc....

    Always a good idea for industrial strength! <G>. I haven't made the move
to SCSI yet so I'm still chained if you will <G>

   Richard

Richard Zimmerman                                     richard@knbpower.com
System Administrator                                   ke4rit@earthlink.net
K&B Transport, Inc.
Elkhart, Indiana                     Advanced SKYWARN weather spotter

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